About May 10
May 10, 2020 is the 131st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 235 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 278 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 10
- 70 –Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city’s Third Wall to the northwest.
- 1497 –Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
- 1774 –Louis XVI becomes King of France.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
- 1796 –First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
- 1824 –The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
- 1837 –Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
- 1893 –The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
- 1920 –Helen Crummy MBE, Scottish community activist (d. 2011).
- 1940 –World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
- 1946 –First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
- 1948 –The Republic of China implements “temporary provisions” granting President Chiang Kai-shek extended powers to deal with the Communist uprising; they will remain in effect until 1991.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
- 1979 –The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.
- 1981 –François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.
- 1993 –In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 156 workers.
- 1997 –A 7.3 Mw earthquake strikes Iran’s Khorasan Province, killing 1,567, injuring over 2,300, leaving 50,000 homeless, and damaging or destroying over 15,000 homes.
- 1997 –The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world’s largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix.
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