10th May anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1909
  • United States
  • "Birth of Maybelle Carter, innovative American country music guitarist"
• event
  • 1307
  • Great Britain
  • Battle of Loudoun Hill. 600 Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated an English army 5 times their size. more
  • 1655
  • Great Britain
  • Britain captures Jamaica
  • 1824
  • Great Britain
  • National Gallery in London opens to the public
  • 1857
  • India
  • Indian Mutiny begins
  • 1908
  • United States
  • "The first official Mother’s Day celebration took place at Andrew’s Methodist Church, Grafton, West Virginia."
  • 1915
  • Great Britain
  • First Zeppelin Air Raids on London
  • 1933
  • Germany
  • The Nazis staged massive public burnings of ‘un-German’ books .
  • 1940
  • Great Britain
  • Churchill forms Wartime Coalition Government
  • 1941
  • Great Britain
  • Rudolf Hess lands in Scotland
  • 1954
  • United States
  • Bill Haley and the Comets release Rock Around the Clock
  • 1978
  • Great Britain
  • Buckingham Palace announced that Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon were to divorce.
  • 1988
  • France
  • French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac resigned. He was replaced by Michel Rocard.
  • 1994
  • South Africa
  • Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africas first black president after more than three hundred years of white rule
• Death