On this day: 10 May
Events, births and deaths on 10 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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- Births · Hugo Banzer
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Events · 21
- 1775Second Continental Congress — 1775–1781 convention of the Thirteen Colonies
- 1775Capture of Fort Ticonderoga — battle during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775
- 1796Battle of Lodi — 1796 battle of the Napoleonic Wars
- 1801First Barbary War — war against Barbary pirates
- 1849Astor Place Riot — 19th century theatre-related riot in Manhattan
- 1857Indian Mutiny of 1857 — 1857–58 uprising against British Company rule
- 1876Centennial Exposition — first official World's Fair in the United States, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1940Battle of France — Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
- 1940German invasion of Belgium — 1940 German conquest of Belgium during World War II
- 1948Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion — amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of China (Taiwan), effective 1948–1991, that established martial law and curtailed civil and political freedoms
- 1961Air France Flight 406 — 1961 plane crash of an Air France Lockheed L-1649A Starliner in the Sahara in French Algeria
- 1969Battle of Hamburger Hill — symbolic Vietnam War battle, May 1969
- 1975Betamax — analog video cassette standard
- 1982Tsuen Wan line — railway line in Hong Kong
- 1994President of South Africa — South Africa's head of state and head of government
- 19971997 Qayen earthquake — earthquake in Qaen County, Iran
- 1997
- 2002Potters Bar rail accident — 2002 derailment in the United Kingdom
- 201210 May 2012 Damascus bombings — car bombing outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria
- 20232023 Taichung crane collapse — 2023 accident in Taichung, Taiwan
- 2024May 2024 solar storms — G5 geomagnetic storm
Births · 60
- 850(Julian date)Seiwa — Emperor of Japan
- 1727Anne Robert Jacques Turgot — French economist and statesman (1727–1781)
- 1748Louis Pierre Vieillot — French ornithologist
- 1760Rouget de Lisle — French army officer (1760-1836)
- 1760Johann Peter Hebel — German short story writer and dialectal poet (1760–1826)
- 1770Louis-Nicolas Davout — Marshal of France (1770–1823)
- 1788Augustin-Jean Fresnel — French engineer and physicist (1788-1827)
- 1838John Wilkes Booth — American stage actor and assassin (1838–1865)
- 1843Benito Pérez Galdós — Spanish realist novelist (1843–1920)
- 1855Yukteswar Giri — Indian yogi, occultist and guru (1855-1936)
- 1872Marcel Mauss — French sociologist and anthropologist (1872-1950)
- 1876Ivan Cankar — Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist (1876-1918)
- 1878Gustav Stresemann — German politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1878-1929)
- 1886Karl Barth — Swiss Protestant theologian (1886-1968)
- 1886Olaf Stapledon — British novelist and philosopher (1886–1950)
- 1888Max Steiner — Austrian-born American music composer and conductor (1888–1971)
- 1890Alfred Jodl — German general and convicted war criminal (1890–1946)
- 1894(Julian date)Dimitri Tiomkin — Ukrainian and American composer
- 1897Einar Gerhardsen — 22nd Prime Minister of Norway (1897–
- 1899Fred Astaire — American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer (1899–1987)
- 1900Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin — British-born American astronomer
- 1901John Desmond Bernal — Irish scientist (1901-1971)
- 1902David O. Selznick — American film producer (1902–1965)
- 1923Heydar Aliyev — 3rd President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1923–2003)
- 1926Hugo Banzer — President of Bolivia from 1971 to 1978 and 1997 to 2001
Deaths · 60
- 472(Julian date)Emperor Ming of Liu Song — Liu Song Emperor from 466 to 472
- 1354(Julian date)Kitabatake Chikafusa — historian (1293-1354)
- 1403(Julian date)Katherine Swynford — Third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
- 1424(Julian date)Go-Kameyama — emperor of Japan
- 1482(Julian date)Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli — Florentine astronomer
- 1493(Julian date)Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll — Scottish noble
- 1521Sebastian Brant — German humanist and satirist (1458-1521)
- 1566(Julian date)
- 1569(Julian date)John of Ávila — Spanish priest, Doctor of the Church
- 1641Johan Banér — Swedish Field Marshal (1596-1641)
- 1726Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans — British Duke (1670-1726)
- 1737Nakamikado — emperor of Japan
- 1774Louis XV of France — King of France and Navarre 1715 to 1774 (1710–1774)
- 1787William Watson — English physician and scientist (1715–1787)
- 1794Princess Élisabeth of France — French Princess, Sister of King Louis XVI, Martyr and Servant of God
- 1807Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau — French noble (1725–1807)
- 1818Paul Revere — American silversmith and Patriot in the American Revolution (1735–1818)
- 1822Paolo Ruffini — Italian mathematician and physician (1765-1845)
- 1829Thomas Young — English polymath (1773-1829)
- 1849Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist (1760-1849)
- 1863Stonewall Jackson — general of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War
- 1889Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin — Russian writer, journalist, plawright and satirist
- 1891Carl Nägeli — Swiss botanist (1817–1891)
- 1897Andrés Bonifacio — Filipino nationalist and revolutionary hero (1863–1897)
- 1904Henry Morton Stanley — British journalist and explorer (1841–1904)
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