About May 10
May 10, 2024 is the 131st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 235 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 264 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.
- 1291 –Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England.
- 1497 –Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
- 1503 –Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
- 1655 –England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
- 1774 –Louis XVI becomes King of France.
- 1833 –The desecration of the grave of the viceroy of southern Vietnam Le Van Duyet by Emperor Minh Mang provokes his adopted son to start a revolt.
- 1877 –Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu’s Declaration of Independence. This act is recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
- 1920 –Helen Crummy MBE, Scottish community activist (d. 2011).
- 1933 –Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
- 1940 –World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
- 1942 –World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
- 1946 –First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
- 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.
- 1994 –Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.
- 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.
- 2002 –F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
- 2008 –An EF4 tornado strikes the Oklahoma-Kansas state line, killing 21 people and injuring over 100.
- 2008 –War in Darfur: The Justice and Equality Movement and Sudanese government forces clash in Omdurman and Khartoum, the first time the fighting takes place in the nation’s capital.
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