Notable Historical Events on May 10th
May 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1267 |
Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb |
1278 |
Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining |
1291 |
Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I |
1427 |
Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland |
1497 |
Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to the New World |
1503 |
Columbus discovers Cayman Islands |
1525 |
Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague |
1534 |
French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland |
1559 |
Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen mother Mary |
1570 |
Tsar Ivan IV becomes Protestant |
1624 |
Dutch admirals Jacob Willekens & Piet Heyn conquer Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) |
1652 |
John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va |
1655 |
Jamaica captured by English |
1676 |
Bacon's Rebellion begins, frontiersmen vs Virginia government |
1752 |
Benjamin Franklin tests the lightning conductor with his his kite-flying experiment |
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 ascends to throne of France |
1775 |
2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pa issues paper currency for 1st time |
1775 |
2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander |
1775 |
Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution |
1787 |
British Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal |
1796 |
French government arrest 10 utopists |
1796 |
Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge |
1796 |
Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam |
1797 |
1st US Navy ship, the "United States," is launched |
1801 |
First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America (1st US foreign war) |
1816 |
British steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor |
1823 |
1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Ft Snelling |
1824 |
The National Gallery in London opens to the public in its temporary home in a townhouse on Pall Mall |
1837 |
Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels. |
1849 |
Pack destroys Astor Place opera house in NYC (22 killed) |
1857 |
Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys in Meerut |
1861 |
Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, MI |
1862 |
Battle of Plum Run Bend, TN (Plum Point Bend) |
1864 |
Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia |
1864 |
Skirmish at Ny River, Virginia |
1865 |
Jefferson Davis captured at Irwinsville Georgia |
1865 |
Surrender of Sam Jones |
1869 |
Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinental RR |
1870 |
Jem Mace & defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hr & 17 minutes, & neither is struck by a punch |
1871 |
Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany ends Franco-Prussian war |
1872 |
Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US presidency by Equal Rights Party at Apollo Hall, NYC |
1876 |
Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia |
1879 |
Meteor falls near Estherville, Iowa |
1880 |
General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria |
1881 |
Lighthouse on Ameland begins operation |
1889 |
17th Preakness: W Anderson aboard Buddhist wins in 2:17.5 |
1893 |
19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout wins in 2:39.25 |
1893 |
Imperial Institute in London opens |
1902 |
Portugal goes bankrupt, but its parliament passes a bill converting its external debt. Contributing to Portugal's troubles is a recent revolt in its colony of Angola, put down on 6 September |
1905 |
31st Kentucky Derby: Jack Martin aboard Agile wins in 2:100.75 |
1906 |
Russian Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time |
1906 |
Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss president Ludwig Forrer open Simplon tunnel |
1907 |
Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue" premieres in Paris |
1908 |
1st Mother's Day observed (Phila) |
1909 |
Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 inning |
1910 |
1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England) |
1910 |
36th Kentucky Derby: Fred Herbert aboard Donau wins in 2:06.4 |
1910 |
Halley's Comet closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass |
1910 |
The British House of Commons pass three major resolutions on political reform |
1913 |
39th Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Goose aboard Donerail wins in 2:04.8 |
1913 |
Yanks commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings |
1915 |
Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England |
1916 |
Disastrous fire in Ellendale, ND |
1916 |
Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam |
1917 |
Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks |
1918 |
HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor |
1919 |
45th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:09.8 |
1919 |
Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed |
1921 |
Luigi Pirandello's "Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore" premieres |
1922 |
Dr Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar |
1922 |
WHB-AM in Kansas City MO begins radio transmissions |
1922 |
The United States annexes the Kingman Reef in n the North Pacific Ocean |
1924 |
J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI |
1926 |
52nd Preakness: John Maiben aboard Display wins in 1:59.8 |
1928 |
WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming |
1929 |
55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr Freeland wins in 2:01.6 |
1929 |
64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane |
1930 |
1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago) |
1930 |
Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 v Yorkshire at Sheffield |
1931 |
Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington, NJ |
1932 |
Government declares "Wilhelmus" as the Netherlands' national anthem |
1932 |
Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France |
1933 |
Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms |
1933 |
Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany |
1933 |
Paraguay declares war on Bolivia |
1933 |
Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands |
1936 |
Manuel Azaña elected president of Spain |
1936 |
Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt |
1937 |
Busmen strike in London |
1938 |
Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam |
1940 |
British Local Defence Volunteers forms (later renamed the Home Guard) |
1940 |
Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks |
1940 |
Dutch-Indies Gov Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege |
1940 |
French marines stationed on Aruba |
1940 |
French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands |
1940 |
Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg |
1940 |
Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister |
1940 |
World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent. |
1941 |
67th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 1:58.8 |
1941 |
Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland |
1941 |
British House of Commons & Holborn Theatre damaged in an air raid |
1941 |
Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason |
1942 |
World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign. |
1944 |
Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan |
1944 |
Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal |
1945 |
Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese |
1945 |
Russian troops occupied Prague |
1946 |
Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yanks 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam |
1947 |
"Chocolate Soldier" closes at Century Theater NYC after 69 perfs |
1947 |
73rd Preakness: Doug Dodson aboard Faultless wins in 1:59 |
1948 |
1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel |
1948 |
Winston Churchill visits The Hague |
1950 |
1st Netherlands-US telex sent |
1951 |
Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council |
1952 |
"Shuffle Along" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 4 performances |
1953 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open |
1953 |
KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Bolshoi Ballet does not appear in Paris |
1956 |
French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria |
1956 |
KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno, CA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
1st meeting of legislative of Cameroon |
1957 |
Dmitri Shostakovitsch's 2nd Piano concerto premieres in Moscow |
1959 |
Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Howard Johnson Golf Invitational |
1959 |
Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan |
1959 |
Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released & charged with loss 2 months after his retirement |
1960 |
John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia |
1960 |
US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st submerged circumnavigation of the globe |
1961 |
"Beyond the Fringe" premieres in London |
1963 |
Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison |
1964 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Squirt Ladies' Golf Open Invitational |
1966 |
25°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May |
1967 |
Foundation AZ soccer team forms in Alkmaar |
1967 |
Hank Aaron only inside the park HR (vs Jim Bunning) |
1967 |
Rolling Stones Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges |
1967 |
Stockholm Vietnam Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia |
1967 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the US & North Vietnam |
1969 |
Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space |
1969 |
Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times |
1969 |
US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam |
1969 |
In an interview with the 'Belfast Telegraph' former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill states: "if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants, ... They will refuse to have 18 children" |
1970 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
1970 |
Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cards 6-5 |
1970 |
Bobby Orr scores one of the most famous goals in hockey history, an overtime goal that gives the Boston Bruins its first Stanley Cup since 1941 |
1971 |
US special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60 cents |
1972 |
Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77 |
1972 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1972 |
An Irish Republican Army bomb starts a fire that destroys the Belfast Co-operative store |
1973 |
27th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1 |
1973 |
9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 8-4 |
1973 |
Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania |
1973 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2 |
1973 |
Bruce Lee collapses in Golden Harvest studios in Hong Kong and is rushed to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital where doctors diagnose him with cerebral edema |
1974 |
7th ABA championship: NY Nets beats Utah Stars, 4 games to 1 |
1975 |
Brian Oldfield of US put shot 75', an unofficial record |
1978 |
"Angel" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1978 |
Liverpool wins 23rd European Cup |
1979 |
Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing |
1979 |
John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros |
1979 |
Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka [From May 2] |
1980 |
"Happy New Year" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 17 performances |
1981 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
1981 |
Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for Presidency of France |
1981 |
Montreal Expo Charlie Lee no-hits SF Giants, 4-0 |
1982 |
WABC NYC plays its last record (John Lennon's Imagine) |
1982 |
WABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network |
1983 |
"Laverne & Shirley" last airs on ABC-TV |
1983 |
Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul |
1983 |
Oilers 0-Isles 2-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
1984 |
Intl Court of Justice rules on US blockade of Nicaragua |
1985 |
Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
1986 |
"Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco hit #1 on UK pop chart |
1987 |
Jody Rosentha wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
1988 |
Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000 |
1989 |
FC Barcelona wins 29th Europe Cup II |
1989 |
Gen Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin |
1990 |
"Zoya's Apartment" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 45 perfs |
1990 |
French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph |
1990 |
Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella |
1991 |
Oakland A's Jose Canseco is seen leaving Madonna's apt |
1992 |
"Hamlet" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances |
1992 |
Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem Israel |
1992 |
Jennifer Wyatt wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic |
1993 |
Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok kills 145 |
1993 |
Last TV appearance of Mies Bouwman |
1993 |
Paul Cézanne still life painting sells for US$28,600,000 in NYC |
1993 |
Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol |
1993 |
Bill Walton is inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
1994 |
"Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Lunt-Font NYC for 16 per |
1994 |
Barbra Striesand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years |
1994 |
Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president |
1994 |
Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists |
1995 |
30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins |
1995 |
Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein |
1995 |
In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident |
1996 |
"Twister" premieres |
1996 |
2 US Marine helicopters collided during joint US & British war games |
1996 |
Excel Communications, Inc. becomes the youngest company ever to join the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), trading under the symbol (ECI). |
1997 |
Chicago Cubs turn baseballs 68th triple play (vs SF Giants) |
2001 |
In Ghana, a stampede at a football game kills over 120 spectators. |
2002 |
Anaheim Angels crush the Chicago White Sox 19-0. The Angels join the 1923 Indians, 1939 Yankees and 1950 Red Sox as the only teams to beat two opponents by 19 or more runs in the same season |
2003 |
The May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence takes place. |
2005 |
A hand grenade which was thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he was giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate. |
2008 |
Philippine court acquits Imelda Marcos in a 17-year-old case of 32 counts of illegal transfer of wealth totaling $863 million in Swiss bank accounts. |
2012 |
The Red Cross suspends all humanitarian work in Pakistan after a worker was kidnapped and killed |
2012 |
Two bombings in Damascus, Syria, kill 55 people and injure 370 |
2013 |
Joe Sakic is hired by his former team, the Colorado Avalanche, as Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations |
2013 |
Agnetha Faltskog releases a new album called "A" |
2014 |
The African National Congress wins the 2014 South African General Election |
2014 |
Conchita Wurst wins the Eurovision Song Contest with Rise like a Phoenix |
2016 |
Uber and Lyft End Rides in Austin to Protest Fingerprint Background Checks |
2016 |
US Announces $50 Million Aid Program for the Gaza Strip |
2016 |
Mexico Judge Says 'El Chapo' Extradition May Proceed |
2016 |
China's Xi congratulates North Korea's Kim on party promotion |
2016 |
Large tornado hits south of Oklahoma City, two dead |
2016 |
US Justice Department files complaint over North Carolina bathroom law |
2016 |
State lawmakers file second lawsuit over North Carolina bathroom law |
2016 |
Earthlings watch as tiny Mercury sails past the sun |
2016 |
Poe concedes defeat to Duterte in Philippine presidential contest |
2016 |
Panama Papers reveal at least 36 Americans accused of financial crimes |
2017 |
Trump fires FBI Director Comey, setting off US political storm |
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