May 10
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May 10 is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 235 days remaining after May 10 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 213 – Claudius II, Roman Emperor (d. 270)
- 1265 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
- 1604 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)
- 1641 – Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)
- 1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician, physicist and chemist (d. 1818)
- 1755 – Robert Gray, American sea captain (d. 1806)
- 1756 – Singu Min, King of Burma (d. 1782)
- 1760 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1782)
- 1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French army officer and composer (d. 1836)
- 1770 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general (d. 1823)
- 1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor who killed Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865).
- 1855 – Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru (d. 1936).
- 1876 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)
- 1878 – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
- 1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d. 1968)
- 1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d. 1971)
- 1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
- 1895 – Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2010)
- 1897 – Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1987)
- 1899 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987).
- 1899 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
- 1900 – Ernst Ising, German mathematician (d. 1998)
- 1902 – David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)
- 1902 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974)
- 1909 – Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)
- 1912 – Olga Bancic, Romanian resistance activist (d. 1944)
- 1915 – Monica Dickens, English writer (d. 1992)
- 1915 – Denis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003)
- 1916 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (d. 2011)
- 1923 – Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003)
- 1925 – Nestor Rossi, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Hugo Banzer, President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
- 1928 – Arnold Ruutel, former President of Estonia
- 1929 – Antonine Maillet, French-Canadian novelist and playwright
- 1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
- 1936 – Gary Owens, American announcer and voice artist.
- 1938 – Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player
- 1944 – Jim Abrahams, American film producer and screenwriter
- 1946 – Donovan, Scottish musician
- 1946 – Dave Mason, English musician
- 1946 – Maureen Lipman, English actress
- 1952 – Manuel Mora Morales, Spanish director and writer
- 1953 – Tito Santana, Mexican-American professional wrestler
- 1955 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer of John Lennon
- 1957 – Sid Vicious, English musician (d. 1979)
- 1958 – Rick Santorum, American politician
- 1960 – Bono (Paul Hewson), Irish singer, lead vocalist of U2.
- 1963 – Lisa Nowak, American astronaut
- 1965 – Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel
- 1966 – Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
- 1967 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
- 1967 – Young MC, American rapper
- 1968 – Al Murray, British comedian
- 1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer
- 1970 – Gabriela Montero, Venezuelan pianist
- 1970 – David Weir, Scottish footballer
- 1972 – Christian Woerns, German footballer
- 1974 – Silvain Wiltord, French footballer
- 1976 – Rachel Gordon, Australian actress
- 1977 – Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer
- 1977 – Nick Heidfeld, German racing driver
- 1980 – Namitha Kapoor, Indian actress
- 1981 – Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
- 1983 – Gustav Fridolin, Swedish politician
- 1985 – Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990 – Lauren Potter, American actress
- 1993 – Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
[change] Deaths
- 1034 – Mieszko II, King of Poland (b. 990)
- 1290 – Duke Rudolph II of Austria
- 1424 – Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan
- 1482 – Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
- 1657 – Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
- 1692 – Jean de La Bruyere, French writer (b. 1645)
- 1717 – John Hathorne, magistrate (b. 1641)
- 1737 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (b. 1702)
- 1774 – King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
- 1787 – William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
- 1798 – George Vancouver, English naval officer and explorer (b. 1757)
- 1818 – Paul Revere, engraver, American patriot (b. 1735)
- 1829 – Thomas Young, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics
- 1863 – Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general (b. 1824)
- 1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
- 1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
- 1904 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer (b. 1841)
- 1944 – Olga Bancic, Romanian resistance activist (b. 1912)
- 1955 – Tommy Burns, Canadian World Heavyweight Boxing Champion (b. 1881)
- 1967 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver (b. 1935)
- 1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1904)
- 1982 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
- 1988 – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
- 1990 – Walker Percy, American author (b. 1916)
- 1992 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
- 1994 – John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)
- 1999 – Shel Silverstein, poet, composer (b. 1930)
- 2002 – Lynda Lyon Block, American murderer (b. 1948)
- 2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
- 2005 – David Wayne, singer for the heavy metal group Metal Church (b. 1958)
- 2006 – Soraya, Colombian-American singer and musician (b. 1969)
- 2010 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Gunnar Sonsteby, Norwegian resistance activist (b. 1918)
[change] Events
- 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England.
- 1497 – 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.
- 1612 – Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan marries Arjumand Banu Begum, who receives the name Mumtaz Mahal.
- 1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
- 1774 – 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.
- 1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
- 1857 – Indian Mutiny: In India, the Sepoys revolt against the British Army.
- 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
- 1865 – American Civil War: Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill in Kentucky (he lingered until his death on June 6).
- 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah).
- 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, United States).
- 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remained 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 were dropped 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 appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1940 – World War II: UK forces land in Iceland.
- 1941 – World War II: The 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 completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
- 1969 – The first rural outdoor rock concert at Zap, North Dakota, is ended prematurely as North Dakota National Guard is ordered to disperse the unruly crowd.
- 1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
- 1981 – François Mitterrand takes office as the first Socialist President of France.
- 1988 – Michel Rocard becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1993 – Kyrgyzstan replaces the ruble with the som as its national currency.
- 1994 – The U.S. state of Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
- 1994 – Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa.
- 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.
- 1998 – National elections are held in Hungary.
- 2001 – In Ghana, a stampede at a 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 – May 2003 tornado outbreak ends.
- 2005 – A live hand grenade lands about 100 feet from US President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
- 2005 – Designed by Peter Eisenman, a memorial to Jews killed in the Holocaust is unveiled in Berlin.
[change] Observances
- Confederate Memorial Day (North Carolina and South Carolina)
- Constitution Day (Federated States of Micronesia)
- Mother's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico)
- Western Christianity: Earliest day on which Pentecost can fall
