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.
- 1497 –Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
- 1655 –England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
- 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.
- 1857 –Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against their commanding officers at Meerut.
- 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.
- 1872 –Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
- 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.
- 1908 –Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
- 1941 –World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
- 1960 –The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
- 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.
- 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.
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