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April 10:

Film releases

• 1953 - Port Sinister, an science fiction adventure film
• Disney Channel Original Movie
• 2010 - Mega Piranha, an ecological disaster horror movie, premieres on Syfy

Television series

• science fiction television series Doctor Who, begins airing on BBC
• 1987 - Amazing Stories, a fantasy, horror, and science fiction television anthology series created by Steven Spielberg, finishes airing on NBC

Births

• Lt. Uhura on Star Trek
• Analog, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Astronomy Now, and Popular Astronomy
• 1957 – John M. Ford (d. 2006), an American science fiction author and poet
• 1973 - Dean Hsieh, an American musician and comic book creator

Deaths

• 1889 - Maria Julia Zaleska (b. 1931), a Polish science fiction author, prosaist, and publicist
• 1972 - Laurence Manning (b. 1899), a Canadian science fiction author
• science fiction fanzine
  Grue
• The Wizard of Oz

Anniversaries and events

• 1988 - FoxTrot first published
• 1997 - Wizards of the Coast announces their purchase of TSR and Five Rings Publishing Group for $25 million