Historical Events In May - 10

1930  On May - 10 clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 vs Yorkshire at Sheffield  

1930  On this day in history first US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)  

1930  1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago) on May - 10.  

1931  Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington NJ on this day in history.  

1932  Government declares "Wilhelmus" Netherlands national anthem on May - 10.  

1932  Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes President of France on May - 10.  

1932  Government declares "Wilhelmus" Neth national anthem on this day in history.  

1933  Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms on May - 10.  

1933  On May - 10 nazis burn 'un-German' books outside Berlin University  

1933  On May - 10 nazis stage public book burnings in Germany  

1933  On this day in history paraguay declares war on Bolivia  

1933  On May - 10 public burning of Jewish and anti-Nazi books.  

1933  On this day in history suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands  

1933  On May - 10 the Nazis stage massive book burnings in Germany  

1936  Manuel Azaña elected President of Spain on May - 10.  

1936  Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt on this day in history.  

1936  On this day in history manuel Azaña elected president of Spain  

1937  On this day in history busmen strike in London  

1938  Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam on May - 10.  

1938  On this day in history percy McAlister, cricketer (8 Tests, punches Clem Hill in 1912), dies  

1940  British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms on this day in history.  

1940  On May - 10 dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks  

1940  Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege on May - 10.  

1940  French marines stationed on Aruba on May - 10.  

1940  On May - 10 french troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands  

1940  On this day in history massive German invasion of Holland, Belgium and France begins.  

1940  On this day in history nazi armies invade the Benelux countries of Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg  

1940  Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM on May - 10.  

1940  Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

1941  On this day in history adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland  

1941  England's House of Commons & Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz on this day in history.  

1941  On this day in history queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason  

1942  Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber & Lewis Fields), dies at 74 on May - 10.  

1943  Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged on this day in history.  

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1265  Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317) was born on May - 10.  

1536  Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall was born on May - 10.  

1604  Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686) was born on this day in history.  

1697  Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer was born on May - 10.  

1705  On May - 10 birth of gallus Zeiler, composer  

1724  Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt-admiral (battle of Doggersbank) was born on this day in history.  

1727  On this day in history birth of anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76)  

1730  On this day in history birth of george Ross, US judge (signed Declaration of Independence)  

0238  On this day in history death of gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered  

0995  Death of Boudouin, bishop of Utrecht on May - 10.  

1290  On this day in history death of duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271)  

1424  Death of Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan on May - 10.  

1493  On May - 10 death of colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician  

1521  Death of Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (b. 1457) on May - 10.  

1566  Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

1569  On this day in history death of juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer