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Today is April 10, the 100th day of 2021. There are 265 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 10, 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers President Branch Rickey purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals.
On this date:
In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
In 1932, German President Paul Von Hindenburg was re-elected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in second.
In 1963, the fast-attack nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank during deep-diving tests east of Cape Cod, Mass., in a disaster that claimed 129 lives.
In 1971, a table tennis team from the United States arrived in China at the invitation of the communist government for a goodwill visit that came to be known as “ping-pong diplomacy.”
Furniture World News By Nic Ledoux on 4/9/2021
Mattress manufacturer MLILY USA is set to launch an interactive 360-virtual showroom tour as an alternative experience for its retail partners who will not attend the upcoming Las Vegas Market due to concerns about COVID-19. The tour will launch in tandem with the Market’s opening day April 11 and will showcase MLILY’s wide array of products with detailed product images, videos and descriptions.
The 360-degree virtual tour will begin at the entrance of the company’s newly expanded World Market Center showroom, which will serve as the backdrop for the tour, thus giving virtual attendees the sense that they are physically in the showroom. MLILY reached an agreement with World Market Center to double its show space after last summer’s Las Vegas Market; measuring 20,000 square feet, the company’s space now spans suites 900 and 908 in Building B.
By: Storme Jones
OKLAHOMA CITY -
Oklahomans were among the tens of thousands of people in Washington D.C. protesting the results of the 2020 election.
Two of those Oklahomans told News 9 they went to Washington to support outgoing president Donald Trump. They left wondering what went wrong.
Neither Daryl Simmons of Skiatook nor Meilsa Schuster of Yukon entered the Capitol following the security breach.
“Our people were not there to cause violence at all,” Simmons said. “As soon as violence happened thousands and thousands and thousands of us left, our people largely started pouring off scene.”
“I truly don’t believe that anybody that was here, those here for the right reasons, wanted to harm anybody,” Schuster said. “They say that we were rioting.”