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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 10 is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
235 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during
the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han,
one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.[1] ·
1291 –
Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England pending
the selection of a king.[2] ·
1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.[3] ·
1503 – Christopher Columbus visits
the Cayman Islands and
names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.[4] ·
1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.[5] ·
1688 –
King Narai nominates Phetracha as regent, leading to
the revolution of
1688 in which Phetracha becomes king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.[6] ·
1768 –
Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing
an article for The North Briton severely
criticizing King
George III.[7] ·
1773 –
The Parliament of
Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East
India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and
granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation
leads to the Boston Tea Party.[8] ·
1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen
of France.[9] ·
1775 – American
Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort
Ticonderoga.[10] ·
1775
– American Revolutionary War: The Second
Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.[11] ·
1796 – War of the
First Coalition: Napoleon wins a victory against Austrian forces
at Lodi bridge
over the Adda River in
Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.[12] ·
1801 – First Barbary War:
The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United
States of America.[13] ·
1824 –
The National Gallery in
London opens to the public.[14] ·
[[1833]
– A revolt broke
out in southern Vietnam against Emperor Minh Mang, who had desecrated the deceased
mandarin Le Van Duyet.[15] ·
1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend
the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis
and an economic
depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great
Depression.[16] ·
1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at
the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute
between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles
Macready, killing at least 22 and injuring over 120.[17] ·
1857 – Indian Rebellion
of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding
officers at Meerut.[18] ·
1865 –
American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union
soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill,
who lingers until his death on June 6.[19] ·
1869 –
The First
Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United
States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with
the golden spike.[20] ·
1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes
the first woman nominated for President
of the United States.[21] ·
1876 –
The Centennial
Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.[22] ·
1881 – Carol I is
crowned the King of
the Romanian Kingdom.[23] ·
1904 –
The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is
founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.[24] ·
1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first
time in the United States, in Grafton, West
Virginia.[25] ·
1916 –
Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives
at South
Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.[26] ·
1922 –
The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.[27] ·
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first
Director of the United States' Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death
in 1972.[28] ·
1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book
burnings.[29] ·
1940 – World War II: German fighters accidentally
bomb the German city of Freiburg.[30] ·
1940
– World War II: Winston Churchill is
appointed Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation
of Neville Chamberlain.
On the same day, Germany invades France, Belgium and Luxembourg.[31] Meanwhile, the United Kingdom occupies Iceland.[32] ·
1941 –
World War II: The House of Commons in
London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.[33] ·
1941
– World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes
into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom
and Nazi Germany.[34] ·
1942 –
World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.[35] ·
1946 –
First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands
Proving Ground.[36] ·
1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue
of The Incredible Hulk.[37] ·
1967 –
The Northrop M2-F2 crashes
on landing, becoming the inspiration for the novel Cyborg and TV series The Six
Million Dollar Man.[38] ·
1969 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on
Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.[39] ·
1975 – Sony introduces
the Betamax videocassette
recorder.[40] ·
1993 –
In Thailand, a fire at the Kader
Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.[41] ·
1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South
Africa's first black president.[42] ·
1996 –
A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight
climbers by the next day.[43] ·
1997 –
The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing
1,567 people.[44] ·
2002 –
FBI agent Robert Hanssen is
sentenced to life imprisonment
without the possibility of parole for selling United States
secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.[45] ·
2005 –
A hand grenade thrown
by Vladimir Arutyunian lands
about 60 feet from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a
speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but
it malfunctions and does not detonate.[46] ·
2012 –
The Damascus
bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military
intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.[47] ·
2013 – One World Trade
Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.[48] Births[edit] ·
874 – Meng Zhixiang, Chinese general and emperor
(d. 934)[49][50] ·
955 – Al-Aziz Billah, Fatimid caliph (d. 996)[51] ·
1491 – Suzanne,
Duchess of Bourbon (d. 1521)[52] ·
1604 – Jean Mairet, French author and playwright
(d. 1686)[53] ·
1697 – Jean-Marie Leclair,
French violinist and composer (d. 1764)[54] ·
1727 – Anne-Robert-Jacques
Turgot, Baron de Laune, French economist and politician (d. 1781)[55] ·
1755 – Robert Gray,
American captain and explorer (d. 1806)[56] ·
1760 – Johann Peter Hebel,
German author and poet (d. 1826)[57] ·
1760
– Claude
Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French captain, engineer, and composer (d.
1836)[58] ·
1770 – Louis-Nicolas Davout,
French general and politician, French
Minister of War (d. 1823)[59] ·
1788 – Augustin-Jean
Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827)[60] ·
1812 – William Henry Barlow,
English engineer (d. 1902)[61] ·
1813 – Montgomery Blair, American lieutenant and
politician, 20th United
States Postmaster General (d. 1883)[62] ·
1838 – John Wilkes Booth,
American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)[63] ·
1841 – James Gordon
Bennett, Jr., American publisher and broadcaster (d. 1918)[64] ·
1843 – Benito Pérez Galdós,
Spanish author and playwright (d. 1920)[65] ·
1847 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and
academic (d. 1923)[66] ·
1855 – Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator (d.
1936)[67] ·
1872 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and
anthropologist (d. 1950)[68] ·
1876 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright
(d. 1918)[69] ·
1878 – Konstantinos
Parthenis, Greek painter (d. 1967)[70] ·
1878
– Gustav Stresemann,
German journalist and politician, Chancellor of
Germany, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1929)[71] ·
1879 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and
politician (d. 1926)[72] ·
1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (d.
1968)[73] ·
1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and
conductor (d. 1971)[74] ·
1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)[75] ·
1891 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and
academic (d. 1934)[76] ·
1893 – Tonita Peña, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native
American) artist (d. 1949)[77] ·
1894 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer
and conductor (d. 1979)[78] ·
1897 – Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian
politician, Prime Minister
of Norway (d. 1987)[79] ·
1898 – Ariel Durant, American historian and author
(d. 1981)[80] ·
1899 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and
dancer (d. 1987)[81] ·
1900 – Cecilia
Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist
(d. 1979)[82] ·
1901 – John Desmond Bernal,
Irish-English crystallographer and physicist (d. 1971)[83] ·
1901
– Hildrus Poindexter,
American bacteriologist (d. 1987)[84] ·
1902 – David O. Selznick,
American director and producer (d. 1965)[85] ·
1903 – Otto Bradfisch, German economist, jurist,
and SS officer (d. 1994)[86] ·
1905 – Markos Vamvakaris,
Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (d. 1972)[87] ·
1908 – Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician,
54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d.
2000)[88] ·
1909 – Maybelle Carter, American autoharp player (d. 1978)[89] ·
1911 – Bel Kaufman, American author and educator
(d. 2014)[90] ·
1915 – Denis Thatcher, English soldier and
businessman, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
2003)[91] ·
1916 – Milton Babbitt, American composer and
educator (d. 2011)[92] ·
1918 – T. Berry Brazelton,
American pediatrician and author (d. 2018)[93] ·
1918
– Desmond MacNamara,
Irish painter, sculptor, and author (d. 2008)[94] ·
1919 – Ella T. Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (d.
1981)[95] ·
1920 – Basil Kelly, Northern Irish barrister, judge
and politician (d. 2008)[96] ·
1920
– Bert Weedon, English guitarist (d. 2012)[97] ·
1922 – David Azrieli, Polish-Canadian businessman
and philanthropist (d. 2014)[98] ·
1922
– Nancy Walker,
American actress, singer, and director (d. 1992)[99] ·
1923 – Heydar Aliyev, Azerbaijan general and
politician, President of
Azerbaijan (d. 2003)[100] ·
1923
– Otar Korkia, Georgian basketball player and
coach (d. 2005)[101] ·
1926 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and
politician, President of Bolivia (d.
2002)[102] ·
1927 – Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author[103] ·
1928 – Arnold Rüütel,
Estonian agronomist and politician, President of Estonia[104] ·
1928
– Lothar Schmid,
German chess player (d. 2013)[105] ·
1929 – Audun Boysen, Norwegian runner (d. 2000)[106] ·
1929
– George Coe, American actor and producer (d.
2015)[107] ·
1929
– Antonine Maillet,
Canadian author and playwright[108] ·
1930 – George E. Smith, American physicist and
engineer, Nobel Prize laureate[109] ·
1931 – Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter
(d. 2016)[110] ·
1933 – Jean Becker,
French actor, director, and screenwriter[111] ·
1935 – Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter,
pianist, and producer (d. 1980)[112] ·
1937 – Tamara Press, Ukrainian shot putter and
discus thrower[113] ·
1938 – Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player[114] ·
1940 – Arthur Alexander, American country-soul
singer-songwriter (d. 1993)[115] ·
1940
– Wayne Dyer, American author and educator (d.
2015)[116] ·
1942 – Jim Calhoun, American basketball player and
coach[117] ·
1944 – Jim Abrahams, American director, producer,
and screenwriter[118] ·
1944
– Marie-France Pisier,
French actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2011)[119] ·
1946 – Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter[120] ·
1946
– Graham Gouldman,
English guitarist and songwriter[121] ·
1946
– Dave Mason, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist[122] ·
1947 – Caroline B. Cooney,
American author[123] ·
1949 – Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer[124] ·
1952 – Sly Dunbar, Jamaican drummer[125] ·
1955 – Mark David Chapman,
American murderer[126] ·
1956 – Vladislav Listyev,
Russian journalist (d. 1995)[127] ·
1957 – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player
(d. 1979)[128] ·
1958 – Gaétan Boucher,
Canadian speed skater[129] ·
1958
– Rick Santorum,
American lawyer and politician, United States
Senator from Pennsylvania[130] ·
1959 – Victoria Rowell, American actress[131] ·
1959
– Danny Schayes,
American basketball player[132] ·
1959
– Cindy Hyde-Smith,
American politician, United States
Senator from Mississippi, Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce[133] ·
1960 – Bono,
Irish singer-songwriter, musician and activist[134] ·
1960
– Dean Heller, American lawyer and
politician, United States
Senator from Nevada, Secretary of
State of Nevada[135] ·
1960
– Merlene Ottey,
Jamaican-Slovenian runner[136] ·
1963 – Lisa Nowak, American commander and astronaut[137] ·
1963
– Debbie Wiseman,
English composer and conductor[138] ·
1965 – Linda Evangelista,
Canadian model[139] ·
1966 – Jonathan
Edwards, English triple jumper[140] ·
1967 – Eion Crossan, New Zealand rugby player[141] ·
1968 – Al Murray, English comedian and television
host[142] ·
1968
– Tatyana Shikolenko,
Russian javelin thrower[143] ·
1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer and
manager[144] ·
1969
– John Scalzi, American author and blogger[145] ·
1970 – Gabriela Montero, Venezuelan-American
pianist[146] ·
1970
– David
Weir, Scottish footballer[147] ·
1971 – Ådne Søndrål,
Norwegian speed skater[148] ·
1972 – Christian Wörns,
German footballer[149] ·
1973 – Joshua Eagle, Australian tennis player[150] ·
1973
– Ollie le Roux,
South African rugby player[151] ·
1974 – Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer[152] ·
1975 – Hélio Castroneves,
Brazilian race car driver[153] ·
1975
– Adam Deadmarsh,
Canadian-American ice hockey player[154] ·
1978 – Bruno Cheyrou, French footballer[155] ·
1981 – Samuel Dalembert, Haitian-Canadian
basketball player[156] ·
1981
– Humberto Suazo,
Chilean footballer[157] ·
1983 – Gustav Fridolin, Swedish journalist and
politician, Swedish
Minister of Education[158] ·
1984 – Edward Mujica, Venezuelan baseball player[159] ·
1985 – Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player[160] ·
1985
– Jon Schofield,
English canoe racer[161] ·
1987 – Wilson Chandler, American basketball player[162] ·
1990 – Salvador Pérez,
Venezuelan baseball player[163] ·
1990
– Ivana Španović,
Serbian long jumper[164] ·
1995 – Missy Franklin, American swimmer[165] ·
1995
– Gabriella Papadakis,
French ice dancer[166] ·
1996 – Tyus Jones, American basketball player[167] ·
1996
– Kateřina
Siniaková, Czech tennis player[168] Deaths[edit] ·
1299 – Theingapati, heir to the Pagan Kingdom[169] ·
1403 – Katherine Swynford,
widow of John of Gaunt[170] ·
1482 – Paolo dal
Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)[171] ·
1493 – Colin
Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician, Lord
Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1433)[172] ·
1521 – Sebastian Brant, German author (b. 1457)[173] ·
1566 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and
botanist (b. 1501)[174] ·
1569 – John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (b.
1500)[175] ·
1641 – Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (b. 1596)[176] ·
1717 – John Hathorne, American merchant and
politician (b. 1641)[177] ·
1726 – Charles
Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier and
politician, Lord Lieutenant
of Berkshire (b. 1670)[178] ·
1774 – Louis XV of France (b.
1710)[179] ·
1787 – William Watson,
English physician, physicist, and botanist (b. 1715)[180] ·
1794 – Élisabeth
of France, French princess and youngest sibling of Louis XVI (b.1764)[181] ·
1798 – George Vancouver, English navigator and
explorer (b. 1757)[182] ·
1807 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau,
French general (b. 1725)[183] ·
1818 – Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier
(b. 1735)[184] ·
1829 – Thomas Young,
English physician and linguist (b. 1773)[185] ·
1849 – Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator
(b. 1760)[186] ·
1863 – Stonewall Jackson,
American general (b. 1824)[187] ·
1868 – Henry
Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)[188] ·
1889 – Mikhail
Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b.
1826)[189] ·
1891 – Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist
(b. 1817)[190] ·
1897 – Andrés Bonifacio,
Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)[191] ·
1910 – Stanislao Cannizzaro,
Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)[192] ·
1945 – Richard Glücks,
German SS officer (b. 1889)[193] ·
1945
– Konrad Henlein,
Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)[194] ·
1950 – Belle da Costa
Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (b. 1883)[195] ·
1960 – Yury Olesha, Russian author, poet, and
playwright (b. 1899)[196] ·
1964 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter,
illustrator, and set designer (b. 1881)[197] ·
1965 – Hubertus van Mook,
Dutch politician, Governor-General
of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)[198] ·
1968 – Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer
(b. 1929)[199] ·
1974 – Hal Mohr, American director and
cinematographer (b. 1894)[200] ·
1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (year of
birth disputed)[201] ·
1982 – Peter Weiss, German playwright and painter
(b. 1916)[202] ·
1988 – Shen Congwen, Chinese author and academic
(b. 1902)[203] ·
1990 – Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist
(b. 1916)[204] ·
1994 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b.
1942)[205] ·
1999 – Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and
illustrator[206] ·
2000 – Jules Deschênes,
Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1923)[207] ·
2000
– Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)[208] ·
2001 – Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, Governor of
Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)[209] ·
2002 – Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b.
1919)[210] ·
2002
– Yves Robert, French actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)[211] ·
2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Serbian-American chemist
and chess player (b. 1937)[212] ·
2006 – Soraya,
Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)[213] ·
2008 – Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)[214] ·
2010 – Frank Frazetta, American illustrator and
painter (b. 1928)[215] ·
2012 – Horst Faas, German photographer and journalist
(b. 1933)[216] ·
2012
– Carroll Shelby,
American race car driver and designer (b. 1923)[217] ·
2012
– Gunnar Sønsteby,
Norwegian captain and author (b. 1918)[218] ·
2015 – Chris Burden, American sculptor,
illustrator, and academic (b. 1946)[219] ·
2018 – David Goodall,
Australian botanist and ecologist (b. 1914)[220] ·
2019 – Alfredo Pérez
Rubalcaba, Spanish politician and chemist (b. 1951)[221] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Children's Day (Maldives)[222] ·
Christian feast day: o Alphius,
Philadelphus and Cyrinus[223] o Gordianus and
Epimachus[228] o Job (Roman Catholic
Church, pre-1969 calendar)[229] o May
10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Confederate
Memorial Day (North Carolina and South Carolina)[230] ·
Constitution Day (Micronesia)[231] ·
Earliest
possible day on which Pentecost can
fall, while June 13 is the latest;[232] celebrated 50 days after Easter Day.(Christianity)[233] ·
Golden Spike Day (Promontory, Utah)[230] ·
Mother's Day (Guatemala,[230] and Mexico[234]) |
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