Today in History for 10th May 2025
Historical Events
1876 – Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia
1945 – Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese
1983 – Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul
1998 – Viktor Orbán elected Prime Minister of Hungary after his Fidesz party forms a centre-right coalition the Independent Smallholders Party and Hungarian Democratic Forum
2017 – Apple becomes the first company to be worth more than $800 billion
Famous Birthdays
1697 – Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné (the elder), French violinist and Baroque composer, born in Lyon, France (d. 1764)
1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, born in Bel Air, Maryland (d. 1865)
1918 – Dr. T Berry Brazelton, American child development paediatrician, author, TV host (What Every Baby Knows), who developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), born in Waco, Texas (d. 2018)
1959 – Cindy Hyde-Smith, American politician (Senator-R-Mississippi 2018-), born in Brookhaven, Mississippi
1970 – Perry Blake, Irish singer-songwriter (The Hunchback of San Francisco), born in Sligo, Ireland
Famous Deaths
1034 – Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies
1641 – Johan Banér, Swedish Field Marshal, led Swedish armies during Thirty Years’ War, dies at 44
1696 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (The Characters, or the Manners of the Age, with The Characters of Theophrastus), dies at 50
1770 – Charles Avison, English composer, dies at 61
1820 – Matthäus Stegmayer, Austrian composer, dies at 49
