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

• 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.
• 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.
• 1863 –
  American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops.
• 1908 –
  Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• 1922 –
  The United States annex the Kingman Reef.
• 1948 –
  The Republic of China implements “temporary provisions” granting President Chiang Kai-shek extended powers to deal with the Communist uprising; they will remain in effect until 1991.
• 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 –
  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?

• 1872 –
  Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)
• 1874 –
  Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941)
• 1928 –
  Arnold Rüütel, Estonian president
• 1933 –
  Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
• 1934 –
  Jeanine Basinger, American film scholar
• 1946 –
  Diderik Wagenaar, Dutch composer and musical theorist
• 1969 –
  John Scalzi, American writer
• 1971 –
  Ådne Søndrål, Norwegian speed skater
• 1971 –
  Craig Mack, American rapper
• 1975 –
  Andrea Anders, American Actress

Who died on May 10?

• 1482 –
  Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
• 1521 –
  Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (b. 1457)
• 1696 –
  Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)
• 1733 –
  Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
• 1850 –
  Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
• 1950 –
  Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b. 1883)
• 1990 –
  Walker Percy, American author (b. 1916)
• 2002 –
  Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2003 –
  Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
• 2010 –
  Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)