What are the important events that happened on May 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

May 10: Facts & Myths About This Day

May 10 is the 130^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 27, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,113,920 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatriacontagon’ day.

Taurus is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,523 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

May 10 Historical Events

• 1291 –
  Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England.
• 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: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
• 1849 –
  Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.
• 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.
• 1933 –
  Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
• 1940 –
  World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
• 1954 –
  Bill Haley & His Comets release “Rock Around the Clock”, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
• 2008 –
  War in Darfur: The Justice and Equality Movement and Sudanese government forces clash in Omdurman and Khartoum, the first time the fighting takes place in the nation’s capital.

Who were born on May 10?

• 1788 –
  Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d. 1827)
• 1838 –
  John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
• 1872 –
  Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)
• 1886 –
  Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d. 1968)
• 1936 –
  Gary Owens, American actor and announcer
• 1952 –
  Sly Dunbar, Jamaican musician
• 1955 –
  Mark David Chapman, American murderer of John Lennon
• 1967 –
  Jon Ronson, British journalist and author
• 1975 –
  Adam Deadmarsh, American ice hockey player
• 1975 –
  Shin Jung-hwan, Korean singer

Who died on May 10?

• 1733 –
  Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
• 1774 –
  King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
• 1775 –
  Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1757)
• 1889 –
  Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
• 1904 –
  Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
• 1945 –
  Konrad Henlein, pro-Nazi Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1898)
• 1955 –
  John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
• 1965 –
  Hubertus van Mook, Acting Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to 1948 (b. 1894)
• 2001 –
  Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)
• 2002 –
  Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)