A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day. Date: May 10, 1996 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 10 📅 Events on this day in 1996 📅 On This Day (Today)
The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people. Date: May 10, 1997 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 10 📅 Events on this day in 1997 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: May 10, 2002 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 10 📅 Events on this day in 2002 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: May 10, 2005 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 10 📅 Events on this day…
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. Date: May 10, 2012 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 10 📅 Events on this day in 2012 📅 On This Day (Today)
One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. Date: May 10, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 10 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: May 10, 2017 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 10 📅 Events on this day in 2017 📅…
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. Date: May 10, 2022 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other…
Start of the May 2024 solar storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms. Date: May 10, 2024 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 10 📅 Events on this day in 2024 📅 On This Day (Today)
Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne. Date: May 9, 1901 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 9 📅 Events on this day in 1901 📅 On This Day (Today)