Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 10

This is a list of selected May 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Images

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  Neville Chamberlain
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  Photo of a sunspot
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  Winston Churchill
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  Victoria Woodhull
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  J. Edgar Hoover in 1961
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  J. Edgar Hoover
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  A replica of the "golden spike" used to complete the First Transcontinental Railroad
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  Golden Spike Ceremony
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  Launch of the lifeboat James Caird from Elephant Island
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  Ethan Allen demanding the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga
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  National Gallery

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.
• 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.
• 1940 – British prime minister Neville Chamberlain resigned and formally recommended Winston Churchill as his successor.
• 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 M_w 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.
• 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.
• 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

May 10

One World Trade Center

• 28 BC – Chinese astronomers during the Han dynasty made the first precisely dated observation of a sunspot.
• 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 over 16 days to obtain rescue for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
• 1940 – World War II: German forces commenced their invasion of Belgium.
• 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).

• Leonhart Fuchs (d. 1566)
• Karl Barth (b. 1886)
• Arthur Kopit (b. 1937)

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