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
- 1534 –Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
- 1655 –England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
- 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.
- 1801 –First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
- 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.
- 1857 –Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against their commanding officers at Meerut.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment “Attack-in-depth” assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton is slightly wounded but is immediately promoted to Brigadier general.
- 1865 –American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
- 1869 –The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
- 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.
- 1922 –The United States annex the Kingman Reef.
- 1940 –World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
- 1940 –World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
- 1941 –World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
- 1954 –Bill Haley & His Comets release “Rock Around the Clock”, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
- 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.
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