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'''
May 10''' is the 130th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (131st in
leap years). There are 235 days remaining.
Events
*
1291 -
Scotland Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King
Edward I of England.
*
1497 -
Amerigo Vespucci (explorer) Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves
Cádiz for his first voyage to the
New World.
*
1503 -
Christopher Columbus visits the
Cayman Islands and names them ''Las Tortugas'' after the numerous
sea turtles there.
*
1534 -
Jacques Cartier visits
Newfoundland.
*
1768 -
John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the ''
The North Briton North Briton'' severely criticizing
George III of the United Kingdom King George III. This action provokes rioting in
London.
*
1774 -
Louis XVI of France Louis XVI becomes King of
France.
*
1775 -
American Revolutionary War:
Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Colonel
Benedict Arnold and
Ethan Allen.
*1775 -
American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the 13 colonies of the
United States meet in
Philadelphia and raise the Continental Army to defend the new
republic. They place it under command of Cavalier
George Washington of Virginia.
*
1796 -
First Coalition:
Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against
Austrian forces at
Lodi bridge over the
River Adda in
Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
*
1801 -
First Barbary War: The
Barbary pirates of
Tripoli declare war on the
United States.
*
1824 -
National Gallery, London National Gallery in
London opens to the public.
*
1837 -
Panic of 1837:
New York City banks fail, and
unemployment reaches record levels.
*
1857 -
Indian Mutiny: In
India, the
Sepoys revolt against the
Military of the United Kingdom British Army.
*
1865 -
American Civil War:
Jefferson Davis is captured by
United States Union troops near
Irwinville, Georgia.
*1865 - American Civil War:
United States Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound
Confederate States of America Confederate raider
William Quantrill in
Kentucky, who lingers until his death on
June 6.
*
1869 - The
First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western
United States, is completed at
Promontory Summit, Utah (not
Promontory Point, Utah) with the
golden spike.
*
1872 -
Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for
President of the United States.
*
1877 -
Romania declares itself independent from
Turkey, recognized on
March 26,
1881 after the end of the Romanian independence war.
*
1908 -
Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in
Grafton, West Virginia,
USA).
*
1922 - The USA annexes the
Kingman Reef.
*
1924 -
J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
*
1933 -
Censorship: In
Germany, the
Nazis stage massive public
book burnings.
*
1940 -
World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
*1940 - World War II:
Germany invades
Belgium, the
Netherlands, and
Luxembourg.
*1940 - World War II:
Winston Churchill is appointed
Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom
*
1941 - World War II: The
British House of Commons House of Commons in
London is destroyed by the
Luftwaffe in an
air raid.
*1941 - World War II:
Rudolf Hess parachutes into
Scotland in order to try and negotiate a peace deal between the
United Kingdom and
Nazi Germany.
*
1954 -
Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first
rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts.
*
1960 - The nuclear submarine
USS Triton (SSRN-586) USS ''Triton'' completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the
earth.
*
1969 - The first "
Zip to Zap" rural outdoor rock concert at
Zap, North Dakota, is ended prematurely as
North Dakota National Guard is ordered to disperse the unruly crowd.
*
1970 -
Bobby Orr flew through the air as he scored the game winning goal of a game in the
Stanley Cup Final.
*
1979 - The
Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
*
1981 -
François Mitterrand takes office as the first
Socialist Party (France) Socialist President of France.
*
1988 -
Michel Rocard becomes Prime Minister of
France.
*
1993 - In
Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 188 workers, mostly young women.
*
1994 - The U.S. state of
Illinois executes
serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
*1994 - An
annular eclipse of the
sun is visible across much of
North America.
*
1996 - A "rogue storm" near the summit of
Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain's history. Among the dead are experienced climbers
Rob Hall and
Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.
*
1997 - An
earthquake near
Ardekul in northeastern
Iran kills at least 2,400 people. *
2001 - In
Ghana, a stampede at a
Football (soccer) football game kills over 120 spectators.
*
2002 -
FBI agent
Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of
parole for selling American secrets to
Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and
diamonds.
*2002 -
Lynda Lyon Block is executed in
Yellow Mama, the
electric chair of Alabama.
*
2003 - Record shattering
tornado activity during the
May 2003 Tornado Outbreak Sequence.
*
2005 - A
hand grenade ostensibly thrown by
Vladimir Arutinian lands about 100 feet from
United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in
Tbilisi,
Georgia (country) Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
Births
*
1265 -
Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d.
1317)
*
1604 -
Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d.
1686)
*
1641 -
Dudley North, English economist (d.
1691)
*
1727 -
Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (d.
1781)
*
1760 -
Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d.
1826)
*
1770 -
Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (d.
1823)
*
1788 -
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d.
1827)
*
1838 -
John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of
Abraham Lincoln (d.
1865)
*
1841 -
James Gordon Bennett Jr., American publisher (d.
1918)
*
1866 -
Léon Bakst, Russian artist (d.
1924)
*
1872 -
Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d.
1950)
*
1878 -
Gustav Stresemann,
Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1929)
*
1886 -
Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d.
1968)
*1886 -
Felix Manalo, first Executive Minister of the
Iglesia ni Cristo (d.
1963)
*
1888 -
Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d.
1971)
*
1889 -
Mae Murray, American actress (d.
1965)
*
1890 -
Alfred Jodl, German general (d.
1946)
*
1897 -
Einar Gerhardsen, Prime minister of Norway (d.
1987)
*
1899 -
Fred Astaire, American singer, dancer, and actor (d.
1987)
*1899 -
Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d.
1979)
*
1902 -
Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d.
1974)
*1902 -
David O. Selznick, American film producer (d.
1965)
*
1909 -
Maybelle Carter, American musician
*
1916 -
Milton Babbitt, American composer
*
1927 -
Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
*
1928 -
Arnold Rüütel, Estonian president
*
1930 -
Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster
*
1933 -
Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
*
1934 -
Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)
*
1936 -
Gary Owens, American actor and announcer
*
1944 -
Jim Abrahams, American film director
*
1946 -
Donovan, Scottish musician
*1946 -
Dave Mason, English musician (
Traffic (band) Traffic)
*
1952 -
Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer
*
1953 -
John Diamond (journalist) John Diamond, British journalist (d.
2001)
*
1955 -
Chris Berman, American sportscaster
*1955 -
Mark David Chapman, American assassin of
John Lennon
*
1956 -
Vladislav Listyev, Russian television anchor and journalist
*
1957 -
Sid Vicious, English bassist (
The Sex Pistols) (d.
1979)
*
1958 -
Rick Santorum, U.S. Senator
*1958 -
Yu Suzuki, creator of
Virtua Fighter series
*
1960 -
Bono, Irish singer (
U2)
*
1961 -
Danny Carey, American Drummer (
Tool,
Pigmy Love Circus)
*
1965 -
Linda Evangelista, Canadian model
*
1966 -
Jonathan Edwards (sports) Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
*
1967 -
Scott Brison, Canadian politican
*
1969 -
Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer
*
1970 -
David Weir, Scottish footballer
*
1971 -
Ådne Søndrål, Norwegian speed skater
*
1972 -
Radosław Majdan, Polish footballer
*
1974 -
Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
*
1975 -
Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
*
1977 -
Nick Heidfeld, German Formula 1 driver
*
1978 -
Kenan Thompson, American actor
Deaths
*
1290 - Duke
Rudolph II of Austria (b.
1271)
*
1424 -
Go-Kameyama,
Emperor of Japan
*
1482 -
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b.
1397)
*
1493 -
Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician
*
1521 -
Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (b.
1457)
*
1566 -
Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist (b.
1501)
*
1641 -
Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b.
1596)
*
1657 -
Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b.
1592)
*
1691 -
John Birch (soldier) Colonel John Birch, English soldier (b.
1615)
*
1696 -
Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b.
1645)
*
1717 -
John Hathorne, American magistrate (b.
1641)
*
1726 -
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b.
1670)
*
1733 -
Barton Booth, English actor (b.
1681)
*
1737 -
Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (b.
1702)
*
1774 - King
Louis XV of France (b.
1710)
*
1787 -
William Watson (scientist) William Watson, English physician and scientist (b.
1715)
*
1792 -
John Stevens (New Jersey) John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
*
1807 -
Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b.
1725)
*
1818 -
Paul Revere, American patriot (b.
1735)
*
1829 -
Thomas Young (scientist) Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b.
1773)
*
1850 -
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b.
1778)
*
1863 -
Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general (b.
1824)
*
1889 -
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b.
1826)
*
1897 -
Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b.
1863)
*
1950 -
Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b.
1883)
*
1955 -
Tommy Burns (boxer) Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b.
1881)
*
1960 -
Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b.
1899)
*
1977 -
Joan Crawford, American actress (b.
1905)
*
1988 -
Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b.
1902)
*
1990 -
Walker Percy, American author (b.
1916)
*
1994 -
John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (executed) (b.
1942)
*
1999 -
Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b.
1930)
*
2001 -
Deborah Walley, American actress (b.
1943)
*
2003 -
Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b.
1937)
*
2005 -
David Wayne, American singer (
Metal Church) (b.
1958)
Holidays and Observances
*
Feast Day of the following
saints in the
Roman Catholic Church:
**
Solange
**
Saint Alphius
**
Saint Francis of Assisi
**
Saint Aurelian
**
Saint William of Pontoise
**
Saint Calepodius
**
Saint Cataldus
**
Saint Comgall
**
Saint Dioscorides
**
Saint Epimachus
**
Gordianus
**
Isidore the Laborer
**
Saint John of Avila
**
Saint Quaratus and Quintus
**
Saint Peter Van
*
Father Damien Memorial Day of Blessed Damien of Moloka'i in
Christianity
*
Celebration of the Clandestine Retreat of Ma'at and Re in
Ancient Egypt
*
Confederate Memorial Day in
North Carolina and
South Carolina
*
Constitution Day in the
Federated States of Micronesia
*
Inauguration Day in
South Africa
*
Sita Pujan in
Hinduism
*
Tin Han's Day in
China
*Start of
Tori no Mawari/
Bird Week in
Japan
*
Mania (mythology) in
Ancient Rome
*
Dia de la Madre in
Mexico
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
''The New York Times'': On This Day
-
ThisDayThatYear.com on May 10
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historical anniversaries listing of all days
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