The 10t o Mey is the 130t day o the year (131st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 235 days ti come.
Events
1655: Jamaica
1869: Transcontinental Railwey completion
2005: Berlin Holocaust Memorial
- 28 BCE – A sunspot is observed bi Han Dynasty astronomers durin the reign o Emperor Cheng o Han, ane o the earliest datit sunspot observations in Cheenae.
- 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage tae the New Warld.
- 1503 – Christopher Columbus reaches the Cayman Islands.
- 1655 – Ingland annexes the then-Spaingie colony o Jamaica.
- 1774 – Louis XVI an Marie Antoinette become King an Queen o Fraunce.
- 1869 – The Unitit States's Transcontinental Railwey is completit at Promontory Pynt, Utah.
- 1877 – Romanie declares itself independent frae the Ottoman Empire follaein the Senate adoption o Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration o Unthirldom. Recognised on 26 Mairch 1881 efter the end o the Romanie War o Unthirldom.
- 1933 – Beuk burnins begin in Nazi Germany.
- 1940 – Warld War II: Breetish troops laund in Iceland.
- 1940 – Winston Churchill replaces Neville Chamberlain as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
- 1940 – Warld War II: Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium an Luxembourg.
- 1941 – Warld War II: Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes intae Scotland.
- 1962 – Marvel Comics furthsets the first issue o The Incredible Hulk.
- 1979 – The Federatit States o Micronesie become self-governin.
- 1994 – Nelson Mandela becomes Preses o Sooth Africae.
- 1997 – A 7.3 Mw yirdquauk strikes Iran's Khorasan Province, killin 1,567, injurin ower 2,300, leavin 50,000 homeless, an damagin or destroyin ower 15,000 homes.
- 2005 – A memorial dedicatit tae Jews that war murthert in the Holocaust is unveiled in Berlin.
- 2005 – A grenade is thrawn at George W. Bush in Tbilisi, Georgie. It disnae detonate.
- 2014 – Conchita Wurst (Tom Neuwirth) wins the Eurovision Sang Contest in Copenhagen for Austrick.
- 2017 – Moon Jae-in becomes Preses o Sooth Korea.
- 2018 – 92-year-auld Mahathir Mohamad becomes Prime meenister o Malaysie (haein previously servit in this office frae 1981 tae 2003) an becomes the auldest-electit poleetical leader in the Warld.
- 2019 – The Unitit States' 25% tariff hike on 200 billion dollars o Cheenese goods enters intae effect.
Births
Fred Astaire
Kikki Danielsson
Jake Zyrus
- 213 – Claudius Gothicus, Roman emperor (d. 270)
- 1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French airmy afficer (d. 1836)
- 1830 – Henry Calderwood, Scots meenister an philosopher (d. 1897)
- 1899 – Fred Astaire, American actor, sangster an dancer (d. 1987)
- 1902 – David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)
- 1923 – Heydar Aliyev, Preses o Azerbaijan (d. 2003)
- 1930 – George E. Smith, American pheesicist
- 1933 – Harold Davis, Scots fitbawer (d. 2018)
- 1946 – Donovan, Scots sangster-sangwriter, guitarist, producer, an actor
- 1952 – Kikki Danielsson, Swadish sangster
- 1957 – Sid Vicious, Inglis muisicker (d. 1979)
- 1958 – Rick Santorum, American politeecian
- 1960 – Bono, Erse sangster an muisicker
- 1992 – Jake Zyrus, Filipino sangster an actor
- 1995 – Missy Franklin, American soummer
Daiths
- 1774 – Louis XV o Fraunce (b. 1710)
- 1812 – John Clerk o Eldin, Scots merchant, naval afficer, airtist, geologist an laundawner (b. 1728)
- 1849 – Hokusai, Japanese airtist (b. 1809)
- 1863 – Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general (b. 1824)
- 1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1994 – John Wayne Gacy, American criminal (b. 1942)
- 2005 – David Wayne, American sangster-sangwriter (Metal Church, Reverend, an Wayne) (b. 1958)
Halidays
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