On this day in History - May 10

• 0946 Início do pontificado do Papa Agapito II
• 1265 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan was born (d. 1317).
• 1290 - Duke Rudolph II of Austria dies.
• 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 discovers the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.
• 1508 - Miguel Ángel Buonarotti comienza a pintar en el Vaticano los frescos de la capilla Sixtina.
• 1521 - Sebastian Brant dies (b. 1457). German writer, author ("Narrenschiff," or "Ship of Fools" )
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier discovers Newfoundland.
• 1566 - Leonhard Fuchs dies (b. 17 Jan 1501). German botanist.
• 1624 - Invasão da Baía, no Brasil, pelos holandeses.
• 1670 - Claude Vignon dies (b. 19 May 1593). French painter and engraver.Esther before
  The Young Singer Ahasuerus Croesus Receiving Tribute from a Lydian Peasant
• 1696 - Jean de la Bruyere dies (b. 17 Aug 1645). French writer and moralist
• 1699 - Bartolomeo Nazari (or Nazzari), was born (d. 24 Aug 1758). Italian artist.
• 1717 - John Hathorne dies (b. 1641). Magistrate.
• 1727 - Anne Robert Turgot was born (d. 1781). Statesman.
• 1742 - D. João V adoece ficando parcialmente paralisado.
• 1760 - Johann Peter Hebel, was born (d. 1826). Poet.
• 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.
• 1774 - King Louis XV of France dies (b. 1710)
• 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.
• 1788 - Augustin Jean Fresnel was born (d. 14 July 1827). French physicist who pioneered in optics and did much to establish the wave theory of light advanced by Thomas Young.
• 1789 - É detido o patriota brasileiro José da Silva Xavier, conhecido como Tiradentes.
• 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.
• 1808 - Nascimento do General Osório (Manoel Luís Osório), patrono do exército brasileiro, em Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Arroio, atual Município de Osório-RS.
• 1818 - Paul Revere, dies (b. 1735). Engraver, American patriot.
• 1822 - August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen, Baptized (as an infant) on 10 May 1822: Viennese painter and lithographer who died on 21 March 1889.
• 1826 - Giuseppe Sigismondo (86), composer, died.
• 1827 - David Johnson, was born (d. 30 Jan 1908). US Hudson River School painter. He produced an oeuvre with a greater variety of subject. Predominantly remembered as a landscape painter of the US northeast wilderness, Johnson also produced still lifes, portraits, and an occasional genre subject. — Croquet on the Lawn (1873, 51x86cm; 706x1219pix, 216kb)— Safely Anchored (1880, 33x48cm)— Natural Bridge (1860, 76x61cm)— Upper Twin Lakes in the Colorado Rockies (1865, 52x77cm) — View on the Androscoggin River, Maine (1870, 71x112cm) — Androscoggin River (1869, 36x56cm; 709x1125pix, 164kb)— Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey
• 1828 - James McDougal Hart, was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland (d. 24 Oct 1901). Scottish-born US painter.An afternoon concert (1850, 99x136cm)— Returning from harvest (1870, 51x87cm) — Presidential Range and Starr King Mountain from Lunenburg VT (11 Sep 1867, 37x61cm) — The Adirondacks — Adirondack Scenery.
• 1829 - Thomas Young, dies. Decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
• 1830 - François-Marie Raoult was born (d. 1 Apr 1901). French chemist who formulated a law on solutions (called Raoult's law) that made it possible to determine the molecular weights of dissolved substances.
• 1837 - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
• 1838 - John Wilkes Booth, was born (d. 1865). Actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
• 1841 - James Gordon Bennett Jr., was born (d. 1918). Publisher.
• 1843 - Nace Benito Pérez Galdós.
• 1844 - Nascimento de Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra (presidente da Costa Rica 1902-1906)
• 1849 - Muere el xilógrafo Katsushika Hoknsa.
• 1857 - Indian Mutiny: In India, the Sepoys revolt against the British Army.
• 1863 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, dies (b. 1824). Confederate general.
• 1864 - Nasceu o pioneiro do cinema francês Léon Gaumont
• 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.
• 1878 - Gustav Stresemann, was born (d. 1929). Politician and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1926
• 1886 - Karl Barth, was born (d. 1968). Protestant theologian.
• 1888 - Max Steiner, was born (d. 1971). Composer.
• 1889 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, dies (b. 1826). Russian satirist.
• 1890 - Alfred Jodl, was born (d. 1946). German general.
• 1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin, composer (Academy Award 1954- High and Mighty), was born in Russia.
• 1899 - Fred Astaire, was born (d. 1987). Singer, dancer, actor.
• 1899 - Dimitri Tiomkin, was born in Russia (d. 1979). Composer. Academy Award 1954 - High and Mighty.
• 1902 - Anatole Litvak, was born (d. 1974). Film director.
• 1902 - David O. Selznick, was born (d. 1965). Hollywood film producer.
• 1904 - Fallece el periodista y explorador Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
• 1908 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virgina, USA).
• 1909 - Mother Maybelle Carter, was born. Country musician .
• 1909 - Morte de José Agustín Arango (presidente do Panamá 1903-1904.
• 1912 -Nascimento de Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini, grande médico e introdutor da cirurgia cardíaca no Brasil, em Guaratinguetá-SP
• 1913 - Nasceu o actor e grande declamador português João Villaret.
• 1915 - Denis Thatcher, was born. Husband of Margaret Thatcher.
• 1916 - Milton Babbitt, was born. Composer.
• 1920 - John Wesley Hyatt, dies (b. 28 Nov 1837). Inventor and pioneer of the plastics industry who discovered the process for making celluloid.
• 1921 - Rudolf von Ribbentrop, was born. Nazi officer.
• 1924 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remained so until his death in 1972.
• 1927 - Nayantara Sahgal, was born. Author.
• 1929 - Nascimento de James Earl Ray. Assassino do líder Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1929 - Fats Domino, was born. Rocker, Blueberry Hill.
• 1930 - Pat Summerall, was born. American football player, broadcaster.
• 1930 - Julio Romero de Torres, dies (b. 9 Nov 1874). Córdoba Spanish painter. — Encendiendo la mecha (1924, 63x40cm; 615x376pix, 19kb) — Mujer con pistola (1925, 52x34cm; 611x404pix, 19kb) — La escopeta de caza (1929, 63x37cm; 619x355pix, 15kb) . — El cohete (1931, 63x37cm; 592x351pix, 14kb) — Viernes Santo
• 1931 - Nascimento de Ettore Scola (Ettore Scola), diretor do cinema mundial, em Trevico-Itália
• 1933 - Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
• 1933 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, was born. Writer.
• 1933 - Paraguay declared war on Bolivia.
• 1934 - Cliff Wilson, was born (d. 1994). Welsh snooker player.
• 1936 - Gary Owens, was born. Actor, announcer.
• 1938 - Maxim Shostakovich was born in Leningrad, Russia. Conductor (Atlanta Symph),
• 1939 - Luiza Neto Jorge was born in Lisbon (d. 1939). Portuguese poetess.
• 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
• 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.
• 1944 - Jim Abrahams was born. Director. Nascimento de Jim Abrahams (Jim Abrahams), astro do cinema internacional, em Shorewood, Wisconsin-EUA, no ano de 1944;
• 1946 - Donovan was born. Musician.
• 1946 - Dave Mason was born. Musician ("Traffic") .
• 1946 - Morte de Catulo da Paixão Cearense, grande músico e poeta nordestino, no Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
• 1950 - Constitución de la SEAT (Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo
• 1953 - John Diamond, was born (d. 2001). British journalist.
• 1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts.
• 1955 - Chris Berman was born. ESPN sportscaster
• 1955 - Ashoka Prasad was born. Medical scientist and psychiatrist
• 1955 - Mark David Chapman was born. Assassin of John Lennon
• 1955 - Tommy Burns dies (b. 1881). World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.
• 1956 - Vladislav Listyev was born. Russian TV anchor and journalist
• 1957 - En Colombia el General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla renuncia al poder y este es tomado por una Junta Militar.
• 1957 - Sid Vicious was born (d. 1979). Bassist of The Sex Pistols.
• 1958 - Rick Santorum was born. U.S. Senator.
• 1960 - Bono was born. Singer of U2.
• 1960 - The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
• 1963 - Nascimento em Itapipoca - CE, de Luiza Coutinho Tomé, actriz do cinema brasileiro.
• 1964 - Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov, dies (b. 03 Jun 1881). Moldovan-Russian French Cubist painter, stage designer, printmaker, illustrator, draftsman, and writer — Pioneer of pure abstraction in painting, he founded the avant~garde Rayonist movement (1910) with Natal'ya Sergeyevna Goncharova [16 Jun 1881 – 17 Oct 1962], whom he later married; [The Cockerel. Rayonist Study ; Blue Rayonism]
• 1965 - Linda Evangelista was born in St. Catherines, Canada. Supermodel.
• 1965 - Nasce José Manuel Borges Custódio em Sá da Bandeira - Angola.
• 1966 - Jonathan Edwards was born. British triple jumper.
• 1967 - Morreu a actriz portuguesa Palmira Bastos.
• 1968 - Violentos recontros entre estudantes e a polícia em Paris. 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.
• 1969 - Dennis Bergkamp, was born in Amsterdam Netherlands. Soccer player ( Ajax).
• 1969 - The Battle of Hamburger Hill began and lasted to May 20. Identified on American battle maps as Hill 937 the battle for Hamburger Hill, actually Ap Bia Mountain, which cost Americans 46 killed and 400 wounded, was one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War as it spelled the end of major American ground combat operations.
• 1969 - Morte do escritor e diplomata colombiano Jorge Zalamea.
• 1973 - Creación del Frente Polisario en el Sahara Occidental.
• 1975 - Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian Indy Car driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 winner
• 1977 - Joan Crawford dies (b. 1904). Actress.
• 1979 - The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
• 1981 - Francois Mitterrand defeated Valery Giscard d’Estaing for Presidence of France.
• 1982 - Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65.
• 1984 - Morre Joaquim Agostinho, ciclista português, quando participava numa prova no Algarve. Sagrou-se campeão nacional em 1968 e 1973. Em 1970 e 1972 venceu a volta a Portugal. Alcançou lugares cimeiros em Espanha e França. Foi considerado dos melhores ciclistas mundiais.
• 1986 - Em Lisboa, o Teatro Maria Vitória é consumido por um violento incêndio.
• 1988 - Michel Rocard becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1990 - Walker Percy, deis (b. 1916). Author.
• 1990 - The government of China announced the release of 211 dissidents who had been involved in pro-democracy demonstrations a year earlier.
• 1993 - At least 188 workers were killed in a doll factory fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
• 1994 - John Wayne Gacy, dies (b. 1942). Serial killer (executed).
• 1994 - The American State of Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
• 1994 - Weezer releases their debut, self-titled album.
• 1994 - Nelson Mandela eleito Presidente da África do Sul 1994: Nelson Mandella sworn in as the president of South Africa
• 1994 - An annular eclipse of the sun is visible across much of North America.
• 1995 - One-hundred-four miners were killed in an elevator accident in Orkney, South Africa.
• 1997 - An earthquake near Ardekul in northeastern Iran kills at least 2,400 people.
• 1997 - Lebanese of all faiths welcomed Pope John Paul II on his first visit to their country.
• 1998 - National elections are held in Hungary.
• 1999 - Shel Silverstein, dies (b. 1930). Cartoonist, playwright and songwriter was found dead in his Key West, Florida, apartment;
• 1999 - The Cézanne painting Still Life With Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit is sold for $60.5 million - Sotheby's.
• 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. 2002 - In Colombia Gen. Gustavo Socha was removed from his job as head of anti-narcotic efforts for the National Police after $2 million in US funds was discovered missing from a special police administrative account.
• 2003 - May 2003 tornado outbreak ends.
• 2003 - Milan Vukcevich, dies. Chemist and chess problem composer.
• 2003 - Maria do Carmo Arruda vence a Maratona de São Paulo - Brasil (femininos)
• 2003 - Genilson Júnior Silva vence a Maratona de São Paulo (masculinos)
• 2004 - Charles Prince, CEO of Citigroup, said his bank would pay $2.7 billion to settle class-action litigation accusing it of misleading investors in WorldCom.
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  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
  Dia de la Madre in Mexico