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Notable anniversaries in history for today: May 10
- 400th: 1624 - Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist.
- 300th: 1724 - Birth of Johan A Zoutman Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral (battle of Doggersbank).
- 250th: 1774 - Louis XV king of France (1715-74), dies at age 64.
- 250th: 1774 - Louis XVI ascends to throne of France.
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Charles Henry Van Wyck; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1895).
- 100th: 1924 - Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at age 58.
- 100th: 1924 - J Edgar Hoover appointed head of the FBI.
- 90th: 1934 - Cunard Line and White Star Line are amalgamated as the Cunard White Star Line.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of William Lithgow; Scottish industrialist/multi-millionaire.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Abdul Kadir; cricket player (Pakistan batsman-keeper in four Tests 1964-65).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jackie Lomax in Liverpool, England; rocker ("Is This What You Want").
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jim Abrahams in Shorewood, Wisconsin, USA; director (Hot Shots, Top Secret).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Marie-France Pisier in Daclat, Vietnam; actress (Scruples, Midnight).
- 80th: 1944 - Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan.
- 80th: 1944 - US court case Smith v Allwright: excluding Blacks from primary voting is illegal.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Jeff Apple in Miami, Florida, USA; producer (In the Line of Fire).
- 70th: 1954 - George Hirst, cricket player (36,323 first-class runs, 2739 wickets), dies.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Dean Spriddle in Plymouth, England; Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Oak Valley).
- 60th: 1964 - Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at age 35.
- 60th: 1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Squirt Ladies' Golf Open Invitational.
- 50th: 1974 - 7th ABA championship: New York Nets beats Utah Stars, 4 games to 1.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Grant Williams; NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Janet Reasons in Port Orchard, Washington, USA; Miss America-Washington (1997).
- 50th: 1974 - In China, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. 20,000 dead.
- 40th: 1984 - Robert Moore, actor (Marshall - Diana), dies at age 56.
- 40th: 1984 - International Court of Justice rules on US blockade of Nicaragua.
- 30th: 1994 - Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy (age 52) by lethal injection for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
- 30th: 1994 - Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at age 69.
- 30th: 1994 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's president.
- 30th: 1994 - Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at age 81.
- 30th: 1994 - An annular eclipse of the sun is visible across much of North America.
- 30th: 1994 - Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian Government with five neo-fascists.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Shel Silverstein of a heart attack at age 68 at home in Key West, Florida, USA; children's author and illustrator (The Giving Tree (1964), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974), A Light in the Attic (1981), Falling Up (1996)).
- 20th: 2004 - Philippine general election: Incumbent president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is elected for six-year term.
- 15th: 2009 - In Bern, Switzerland, Russia defeats Canada to win gold in the championship game of the International Ice Hockey Federation.
- 15th: 2009 - In Catalunya, Spain, round 5 of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship is won by Jenson Button.
- 5th: 2019 - The United States' 25 percent tariff hike on US$200 billion worth of Chinese imports takes effect.
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