April 10, 1981 (Friday)
- Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981: Incarcerated at the H-Block of Maze Prison and on a hunger strike, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands was elected to a vacant seat in the British House of Commons, with 30,492 votes for his "Anti-H-Block Party", ahead of Harry West's 29,046 votes. MP Sands died of starvation on May 5.
- Born: Laura Bell Bundy, American stage actress and country singer, in Lexington, Kentucky; and Gretchen Bleiler, American snowboarder and X-Games gold medalist, in Toledo, Ohio
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“No April can revive thy withered flowers,
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