Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 10
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Neville Chamberlain -
Photo of a sunspot -
Winston Churchill -
Victoria Woodhull -
J. Edgar Hoover in 1961 -
J. Edgar Hoover -
A replica of the "golden spike" used to complete the First Transcontinental Railroad -
Golden Spike Ceremony -
Launch of the lifeboat James Caird from Elephant Island -
National Gallery -
Bebelplatz Square book burning -
One World Trade Center
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Constitution Day in the Federated States of Micronesia | short apart from description of the constitution |
| Mother's Day in El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico | refimprove section |
| 1503 – Christopher Columbus and his crew became the first Europeans to visit the Cayman Islands, naming them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there. | indiscriminate list |
| 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Delegates from the Thirteen Colonies met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to convene the Second Continental Congress, which would serve as the de facto national government of the future United States. | refimprove section |
| 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declared war on the United States by cutting down the flagstaff in front of the U.S. consulate. | Saved for June 10 |
| 1824 – The National Gallery in London opened to the public, in the former townhouse of the collector John Julius Angerstein. | |
| 1837 – Banks in New York City suspended specie payments, triggering a seven-year recession in the United States. | lots of CN tags in one section (Effects and aftermath) |
| 1857 – The Indian Rebellion against the East India Company's rule began. | refimprove section |
| 1869 – The Golden Spike Ceremony was held at Promontory Summit, Utah, celebrating the completion of the Pacific Railroad in the United States between the Missouri and Sacramento Rivers. | refimprove sections |
| 1872 – Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to be nominated as a candidate for President of the United States. | lots of CN tags in one section |
| 1893 – For trade purposes under the Tariff Act of 1883, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable instead of a fruit. | refimprove section |
| 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover became the director of the Bureau of Investigation, which would later become the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. | refimprove section |
| 1940 – Second World War: A British force of 746 troops invaded and captured Iceland without opposition. | refimprove section |
| 1981 – François Mitterrand was elected to be the first socialist President of the French Fifth Republic. | refimprove section |
| 1994 – Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first black President, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. | appears on February 11 |
| 1849 – A personal dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Macready in New York City devolved into a riot that left at least 22 dead and more than 120 injured. | Undercited |
Eligible
- 1627 – Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts was appointed governor of Formosa (modern-day Taiwan) by the Dutch East India Company.
- 1833 – Siamese–Vietnamese wars: Lê Văn Khôi escaped from prison to begin a revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng, primarily to avenge his adoptive father, Vietnamese general Lê Văn Duyệt.
- 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five companions arrived at South Georgia, completing a 1,300 km (800 mi) lifeboat voyage (launch pictured) over 16 days to obtain rescue for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
- 1940 – World War II: German forces commenced their invasion of Belgium.
- 1941 – World War II: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the British government.
- 1997 – An earthquake registering 7.3 Mw struck near Qaen, Iran, killing at least 1,567 and leaving around 50,000 others homeless.
- 1994 – American serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed between 1972 and 1978.
- 2013 – One World Trade Center (pictured) in New York City, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, was topped out at a height of 1,776 feet (541 m).
- 2017 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces, assisted by the U.S. military, captured the Tabqa Dam and surrounding countryside, completing the Battle of Tabqa.
- Born/died: | Ahmad ibn Tulun |d|884| Al-Aziz Billah |b|955| Theingapati |d|1299| Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll |d|1493| Anne Robert Jacques Turgot |b|1727| Johann Peter Hebel |b|1760| Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle |b|1760| Thomas Young |d|1829| Sri Yukteswar Giri |b|1855| Felix Manalo |b|1886| Miuccia Prada |b|1949| Lorenzo Bandini |d|1967| Joan Crawford |d|1977| Shen Congwen |d|1988
Notes
- Norway Debate appears on May 7, so Neville Chamberlain should not appear in the same year
- Panic of 1873 appears on May 9, so 1837 one should not appear in the same year
Ethan Allen demanding the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga
- 28 BC – Chinese astronomers during the Han dynasty made the first precisely dated observation of a sunspot.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small force of Patriots led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga (depicted) in New York, without significant injury or incident.
- 1933 – As part of Nazi Germany's persecution of transgender people, thousands of books taken from the Institute for Sexual Science were burned in Bebelplatz square for being "un-German".
- 1940 – British prime minister Neville Chamberlain resigned and formally recommended Winston Churchill as his successor.
- 2005 – Vladimir Arutyunian attempted to assassinate U.S. president George W. Bush and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi using a hand grenade, which failed to detonate.
- Leonhart Fuchs (d. 1566)
- Karl Barth (b. 1886)
- Arthur Kopit (b. 1937)