About May 10
May 10, 2025 is the 130th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 235 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 283 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.
- 1503 –Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
- 1534 –Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
- 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.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
- 1801 –First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
- 1837 –Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
- 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.
- 1920 –Helen Crummy MBE, Scottish community activist (d. 2011).
- 1924 –J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
- 1940 –World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
- 1940 –World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
- 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.
- 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.
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