Historical Events on May 10

1291 Scottish nobles recognize authority of English King Edward I

1294 Temür Khan declared Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty

1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for his first voyage to the New World (disputed)

1503 Christopher Columbus discovers Cayman Islands

1534 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland

1752 Benjamin Franklin tests the lightning conductor with his kite-flying experiment

1768 John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for "The North Briton" severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.

1774 Louis XVI ascends to throne of France

1775 Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia names George Washington Supreme Commander

1796 Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge

1804 British Prime Minister Henry Addington resigns, replaced by William Pitt the Younger

1858 Abolitionist John Brown meets Harriet Truman at a Constitutional Convention convened in Chatham, Ontario

1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis captured by Union troops at Irwinsville Georgia (US Civil War)

1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US presidency by Equal Rights Party at Apollo Hall, NYC

1915 Canadian physician Cluny MacPherson first presents his gas mask invention to the British War Office

1924 J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI

1929 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Walter Hagen wins 4th Open title, by 6 strokes from fellow American Johnny Farrell

1936 Manuel Azaña elected the second President of the Spanish Republic

1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister

1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess escapes to Britain to open secret negotiations with the Allies, parachuting into Scotland

1952 5th Cannes Film Festival: "The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice" directed by Orson Welles and "Two Cents Worth of Hope" directed by Renato Castellani jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film

1956 9th Cannes Film Festival: "The Silent World" directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle wins the Palme d'Or

1957 Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Piano concerto premieres in Moscow

1960 John F. Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia

1963 Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison

1967 Hank Aaron only inside the park HR (vs Jim Bunning)

1967 Rolling Stones Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges

1969 In an interview with the 'Belfast Telegraph' former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill states: "if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants, ... They will refuse to have 18 children"

1970 Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: Bobby Orr scores famous OT winner as Boston beats St. Louis Blues, 4-3 for 4-0 series sweep; Bruins its first title since 1941

1973 Bruce Lee collapses in Golden Harvest studios in Hong Kong and is rushed to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital where doctors diagnose him with cerebral edema

1981 Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for Presidency of France

1982 WABC NYC plays its last record (John Lennon's Imagine)

1983 TV sitcom "Laverne & Shirley" last airs on ABC-TV

1989 General Manuel Noriega's Panama government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin

1990 Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella

1993 Paul Cézanne still life painting sells for US$28,600,000 in NYC

1993 Bill Walton is inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

1994 Barbra Streisand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years

1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president

1996 "Twister" disaster film written by Michael Crichton starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton premieres