May 10 - Events

Here are the events held in May 10 : 

         

          1. In 2013, One World Trade Center became the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

          2. In 1975, Sony introduced the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.

          3.In 1994, Nelson Mandela inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

          4.In 2002, FBI agent Robert Hanssen sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of                      parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds

          5.In 1981, François Mitterrand won the presidential election and became the first Socialist                            President of France in the French Fifth Republic.

          6.In 1997, The 7.3 Magnitude Qayen earthquake striked Iran's Khorasan Province, killing 1,567,                   injuring over 2,300, leaving 50,000 homeless, and damaging or destroying over 15,000 homes.

          7.In 1908, Mother's Day was observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West                       Virginia.

          8.In 1922, The United States annexed the Kingman Reef.

          9.In 1824, The National Gallery in London opened to the public.

          10.In 1774, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.