Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/April/April 10
Film releases
- 1953 - Port Sinister, an science fiction adventure film
- 1999 - Can of Worms, a science fiction Disney Channel Original Movie
- 2010 - Mega Piranha, an ecological disaster horror movie, premieres on Syfy
Television series
- 1971 - Colony in Space, a serial in the British 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
- 1932 - Hari Rhodes (d. 1992), an African-American actor who had a pioneering role portraying a black member of an exploration team on an episode of The Outer Limits in 1964, predating Nichelle Nichols' portrayal of Lt. Uhura on Star Trek
- 1936 - David A. Hardy, a British space artist and cover illustrator for magazines such as F&SF, 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
- 2004 - Dean Grennell (b. 1923), an American firearms expert, a writer/editor, science fiction fan, and editor of the science fiction fanzine Grue
- 2010 - Meinhardt Raabe (b. 1915), an American actor best known as the Munchkin coroner in 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