10 May

Notable Births

Bae Jin-young

b. 2000

South Korean singer (born 2000)

Brittany Broski

b. 1997

American comedic social media personality (born 1997)

Richarlison

b. 1997

Brazilian footballer (born 1997)

Nicolas Aubé-Kubel

b. 1996

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1996)

Tyus Jones

b. 1996

American basketball player (born 1996)

Kateřina Siniaková

b. 1996

Czech tennis player (born 1996)

Alex Tuch

b. 1996

American ice hockey player (born 1996)

Andrew Anderson (bowler)

b. 1995

Right-handed American ten-pin bowler (born 1995)

Missy Franklin

b. 1995

American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (born 1995)

Gabriella Papadakis

b. 1995

French ice dancer (born 1995)

Jake Zyrus

b. 1993

Filipino singer (born 1992)

Salvador Perez

b. 1990

Venezuelan baseball player (born 1990)

Ivana Španović

b. 1990

Serbian long jumper and triple jumper (born 1990)

Adam Lallana

b. 1988

English footballer (born 1988)

Ryan Getzlaf

b. 1985

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1985)

Jon Schofield (canoeist)

b. 1985

British canoeist

Edward Mujica

b. 1984

Venezuelan baseball player (born 1984)

Adebayo Akinfenwa

b. 1982

English footballer (born 1982)

Bono

b. 1960

Irish musician and activist (born 1960)

Jim Calhoun

b. 1942

American basketball player and coach (born 1942)

Notable Deaths

Sam Rubin

d. 2024

American journalist (1960–2024)

Jim Simons

d. 2024

American mathematician and billionaire (1938–2024)

Bob Lanier

d. 2022

American basketball player (1948–2022)

Leonid Kravchuk

d. 2022

President of Ukraine from 1991 to 1994

Pauline Tinsley

d. 2021

British opera singer (1928–2021)

Betty Wright

d. 2020

American singer (1953–2020)

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

d. 2019

Spanish politician

David Goodall (botanist)

d. 2018

Botanist and ecologist

Chris Burden

d. 2015

American artist (1946–2015)

Horst Faas

d. 2012

German writer, journalist and photographer (1933–2012)

Carroll Shelby

d. 2012

American racing driver and automotive designer (1923–2012)

Gunnar Sønsteby

d. 2012

Norwegian resistance fighter (1918–2012)

Frank Frazetta

d. 2010

American illustrator and painter (1928–2010)

Leyla Gencer

d. 2008

Turkish operatic soprano (1928–2008)

Soraya (musician)

d. 2006

Colombian-American singer-songwriter (1969–2006)

Kaifi Azmi

d. 2002

Indian Urdu poet (1919–2002)

Yves Robert

d. 2002

French director (1920-2002)

Sudhakarrao Naik

d. 2001

Indian politician (1934–2001)

Jules Deschênes

d. 2000

Canadian judge (1923–2000)

Joan Crawford

d. 1977

American actress (1904?–1977)

On This Day in History

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2024

Start of the May 2024 solar storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.

May 2024 solar storms

2022

Queen Elizabeth II misses the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years. It was the first time that a new session of Parliament was opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge acting as Counsellors of State.

Elizabeth II

2017

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last footholds of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Al-Tabqah, bringing the Battle of Tabqa to an end.

Syrian civil war

2013

One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

One World Trade Center

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2012

The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.

10 May 2012 Damascus bombings

2005

A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 20 m from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.

Grenade

2002

FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.

Robert Hanssen

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1997

The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.

Moment magnitude scale