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May 10 is the 131th day of the year.
There are 235 days remaining until the end of the year.
the sun rose at 6:03 am
and sunset will be at 8:10 pm.
Today we will have 14 hours and 7 minutes of sun.
the first high tide was at 2:21 am
and the next high tide will be at 4:27 pm.
The first low tide will be at 9:04 am
and the next low tide at 9:20 pm.
today is...
National Lipid Day
National Shrimp Day
it's also...
Children's Day in The Maldives
Constitution Day in Micronesia
Flower Festival in Azerbaijan
Golden Spike Day in Promontory, Utah
Independence Day or King's Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of Romania from the Ottoman Empire in 1877.
Mother's Day, Dia De Las Madres, in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico
if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday also to…
1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
1899 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)
1902 – David O. Selznick, American director and producer (d. 1965)
1908 – Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United
States House of Representatives (d. 2000)
1909 – Maybelle Carter, American autoharp player (Carter Family and The Carter
Sisters) (d. 1978)
1918 – T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician and author
1922 – Nancy Walker, American actress, singer, and director (d. 1992)
1940 – Wayne Dyer, American author and educator (d. 2015)
1946 – Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1946 – Dave Mason, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Traffic and Fleetwood
Mac)
1952 – Sly Dunbar, Jamaican drummer (Sly and Robbie, The Aggrovators, The
Upsetters, and The Revolutionaries)
1955 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer
1957 – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
1958 – Rick Santorum, American lawyer and politician
1960 – Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, humanitarian, and activist (U2)
1978 – Kenan Thompson, American actor
on this day in history…
1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and
roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.