Interesting facts about May 10th

Tauruses born on May 10 are cautious optimists who believe that if they try hard enough they can make a positive impact upon their world. Though not naturally solitary, they do require more than their share of privacy. They depend on their subconscious mind to give them the guidance they need.

Source Jill M. Phillips

1774: Louis XVI becomes King of France.

1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union troops near Irvinville,

1872: Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.

1924: J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation. He remained director until his death in 1972.

1940: Winston churchil becomes British Prime Minister after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.

1940: German begins invasion of the Low Countries. using a new military doctrine called 'blitzkrieg'.

1941: Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy, arrested when he parachuted into Scotland on a mission he claims, to seal a peace between the Third Reich and Britain.

1954: Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.

1960: The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.

1969: In Vietnam the Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hamburger Hill.

1978: Britain's Princess Margaret(younger sister to the Queen) and the Earl of Snowdon announced they were divorcing after 18 years of marriage.

1994: Former political prisoner Nelson Mandela is sworn in as the first black president of South Africa.

2002: FBI agent, Robert Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole for selling U.S. secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.

2005: A hand grenade which is thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands 20 metres from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it fails to detonate.

The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as that saint's feast day. Today is feast day for the following saints:

St. Solange
St. Alphius
St. Aurelian
St. William of Pontoise
St. Calepodius
St. Cataldus
St. Comgall
St. Dioscorides
St. Epimachus
St. Gordian and Epimachus
St. John of Avila
St. Quaratus and Quintus
St. Peter Van