It happened on this day, May 10
events:
1497 – Italian sailor Amerigo Vespucci sets out at the head of a group of ships on a voyage in search of a new route to the Far East and Asia other than the previously known route around Africa. When he collides with the earth, he imagines that he is himself. has already reached India, but he discovered a new land on which no European foot had set foot. It used to be South America, which is why Europeans called it “America”.
1529 – Suleiman the Magnificent launches a campaign to besiege Vienna in the heart of Europe.
1774 – Louis XVI ascends the throne of France.
1862 – Russian Emperor Alexander II approves the plan to resettle the Circassians in the Ottoman Empire.
1869 – The first transcontinental railroad is launched in the United States.
1877 – Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi publishes the newspaper “Al-Shahba” in Aleppo, which is the first newspaper published in Arabic in Syria.
1940 – Nazi Germany invades Belgium and the Netherlands during World War II. Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1960 – Announcement of the creation of the Republic of Cameroon.
1994 – African leader Nelson Mandela becomes the first African president of the Republic of South Africa.
1995 – The United Kingdom decides to lift the ban on ministerial negotiations with the political wing of the IRA/Sinn Fein, which is leading a fight for Northern Ireland's independence from the United Kingdom. United.
1997 – An earthquake hits northeastern Iran, killing 2,400 people.
2004: 16 people are killed during clashes between American forces and the Mahdi Army in Baghdad.
2005 – Sheikh Ma'shouq al-Khaznawi disappears from his place of residence near Damascus. Three weeks later, on June 1, his body was found buried in Deir ez-Zor, and his family said it bore signs of torture. Al-Khaznawi's son, as well as Syrian opponents, accused the authorities of being responsible for the crime, but the authorities denied it.
2012 – Two car bomb attacks in the Al-Qazzaz neighborhood of Damascus, near a security headquarters, killing 53 people and injuring around 400. A statement attributed to the Al-Nusra Front claiming responsibility for the two bombings was published the next day.
2017 – Moon Jae-in wins the South Korean presidential election with 41.08% of the vote.
2020 – The number of confirmed infections from the coronavirus pandemic exceeds four million people worldwide, including more than 279,000 deaths and approximately 1,375,000 recoveries.
✴️The Iranian support ship Konarak was hit by friendly fire from the frigate Jamaran during Iranian naval maneuvers in the Gulf of Oman, in an accident that left 19 of its crew dead.
✴️ Avianca, the second oldest airline in the world, announces its bankruptcy due to the Corona pandemic following the cessation of flights and the accumulation of debts.
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Births:
1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician.
1755 – Robert Gray, American explorer.
1788 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist.
1848 – Sir Thomas Lipton, Scottish businessman and manufacturer of Lipton tea.
1878 – Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.
1885 – Fritz von Unruh, German playwright, novelist and painter.
1890 – Alfred Jodl, German soldier.
1894 – Dimitri Towamkin, American musician.
1899 – Fred Astaire, American actor.
1915 – Salah Abu Seif, Egyptian director.
1923 – Heydar Aliyev, third president of Azerbaijan.
1931 – Ichiro Nagai, Japanese actor.
1933 – Ahmed Shafiq, Egyptian surgeon.
1937 – Issam Fares, Lebanese businessman and politician.
1939 – Soraya Ibrahim, Egyptian actress.
1941 – Gharib Mahmoud, Egyptian actor.
1948 – Muhammad Al-Harfi, Saudi thinker and writer
1959 – Ahmed Salama, Egyptian actor.
1960 – Bono, Irish singer.
1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer.
1970 – Antar Zouabri, emir of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria.
1971 – Leslie Stevenson, American actress.
1974 – Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer.
1975 – Hazem Emam, Egyptian footballer.
1978 – Princess Lalla Salma, wife of King Mohammed VI of Morocco.
1980 – Hoda Ibrahim, Jordanian actress working in Kuwait.
** Namitha, Indian actress.
** Zaho, an Algerian singer living in Canada.
1981 – Wafaa Makki, Bahraini actress.
**Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer.
1987 – Jarrah Al-Zuhair, Kuwaiti footballer.
1989 – Lindsay Shaw, American actress.
1992 – Charmaine Clarice, Filipino singer.
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Death:
1324 – Ibn Kabir, Coptic theologian, linguist and historian.
1667 – Queen Maria Luisa Gonzaga, Queen of Poland.
1774 – King Louis XV, king of France.
1798 – George Vancouver, English explorer.
1937 – Mustafa Sadiq Al-Rafi'i, Egyptian writer.
1941 – Ibrahim Atemesh, Iraqi Muslim poet and jurist.
1967 – Nasr Samaan, Syrian-Brazilian poet.
1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress.
1993 – Hala Fouad, Egyptian actress.
1997 – Ziad Mawlawi, Syrian actor.
1998 – Elias Jiryis, Jordanian journalist, teacher and poet.
2000 – Raymond Edde, Lebanese politician.
2002 – Khosrow Shahani, Iranian journalist and storyteller.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️ Constitution Day in the Federated States of Micronesia.
◀️ Mother's Day in El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.
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