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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