10 Mey

The **10t o Mey** is the 130t day o the year (131st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 235 days ti come.

## Events

 
* 28 BCE &ndash; A sunspot is observed bi Han Dynasty astronomers durin the reign o Emperor Cheng o Han, ane o the earliest datit sunspot observations in Cheenae.
*1497 &ndash; Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage tae the New Warld.
*1503 &ndash; Christopher Columbus reaches the Cayman Islands.
*1655 &ndash; Ingland annexes the then-Spaingie colony o Jamaica.
*1774 &ndash; Louis XVI an Marie Antoinette become King an Queen o Fraunce.
*1869 &ndash; The Unitit States's Transcontinental Railwey is completit at Promontory Pynt, Utah.
*1877 &ndash; Romanie declares itself independent frae the Ottoman Empire follaein the Senate adoption o Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration o Unthirldom. Recognised on 26 Mairch 1881 efter the end o the Romanie War o Unthirldom.
*1933 &ndash; Beuk burnins begin in Nazi Germany.
*1940 &ndash; Warld War II: Breetish troops laund in Iceland.
*1940 &ndash; Winston Churchill replaces Neville Chamberlain as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
*1940 &ndash; Warld War II: Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium an Luxembourg.
*1941 &ndash; Warld War II: Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes intae Scotland.
*1962 &ndash; Marvel Comics furthsets the first issue o The Incredible Hulk.
*1979 &ndash; The Federatit States o Micronesie become self-governin.
*1994 &ndash; Nelson Mandela becomes Preses o Sooth Africae.
*1997 &ndash; A 7.3 M<sub>w</sub> yirdquauk strikes Iran's Khorasan Province, killin 1,567, injurin ower 2,300, leavin 50,000&nbsp;homeless, an damagin or destroyin ower 15,000&nbsp;homes.
*2005 &ndash; A memorial dedicatit tae Jews that war murthert in the Holocaust is unveiled in Berlin.
*2005 &ndash; A grenade is thrawn at George W. Bush in Tbilisi, Georgie. It disnae detonate.
*2014 &ndash; Conchita Wurst (Tom Neuwirth) wins the Eurovision Sang Contest in Copenhagen for Austrick.
*2017 &ndash; Moon Jae-in becomes Preses o Sooth Korea.
*2018 &ndash; 92-year-auld Mahathir Mohamad becomes Prime meenister o Malaysie (haein previously servit in this office frae 1981 tae 2003) an becomes the auldest-electit poleetical leader in the Warld.
*2019 &ndash; The Unitit States' 25% tariff hike on 200 billion dollars o Cheenese goods enters intae effect.

## Births

*213 &ndash; Claudius Gothicus, Roman emperor (d. 270)
*1760 &ndash; Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French airmy afficer (d. 1836)
*1830 &ndash; Henry Calderwood, Scots meenister an philosopher (d. 1897)
*1899 &ndash; Fred Astaire, American actor, sangster an dancer (d. 1987)
*1902 &ndash; David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)
*1923 &ndash; Heydar Aliyev, Preses o Azerbaijan (d. 2003)
*1930 &ndash; George E. Smith, American pheesicist
*1933 &ndash; Harold Davis, Scots fitbawer (d. 2018)
*1946 &ndash; Donovan, Scots sangster-sangwriter, guitarist, producer, an actor
*1952 &ndash; Kikki Danielsson, Swadish sangster
*1957 &ndash; Sid Vicious, Inglis muisicker (d. 1979)
*1958 &ndash; Rick Santorum, American politeecian
*1960 &ndash; Bono, Erse sangster an muisicker
*1992 &ndash; Jake Zyrus, Filipino sangster an actor
*1995 &ndash; Missy Franklin, American soummer

## Daiths
*1774 &ndash; Louis XV o Fraunce (b. 1710)
*1812 &ndash; John Clerk o Eldin, Scots merchant, naval afficer, airtist, geologist an laundawner (b. 1728)
*1849 &ndash; Hokusai, Japanese airtist (b. 1809)
*1863 &ndash; Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general (b. 1824)
*1977 &ndash; Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)
*1994 &ndash; John Wayne Gacy, American criminal (b. 1942)
*2005 &ndash; David Wayne, American sangster-sangwriter (Metal Church, Reverend, an Wayne) (b. 1958)

## Halidays
* Confederate Memorial Day (North Carolina an Sooth Carolina)
* Constitution Day (Federatit States o Micronesie)
* Mither's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico)