{"id":20770,"date":"2020-05-10T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T06:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=20770"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T09:40:03","slug":"history-of-10-may-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-10-may-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 10 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 10 May<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa\u2019s first black president.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; An earthquake in northeastern Iran killed at least 2,400 people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; China broke off talks on human rights with the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0in response to NATO&#8217;s accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; The Cezanne painting &#8220;Still Life With Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit&#8221; sold for 60.5 million.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; 11,000 residents were evacuated in Los Alamos,\u00a0NM, due to a fire that was blown into a canyon. The fire had been deliberately set to clear brush.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2001<\/strong> &#8211; Boeing Co. announced that it would be moving its headquarters to Chicago,\u00a0IL.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2001<\/strong> &#8211; In Ghana, 121 people were killed in a stampede at a soccer game.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Robert Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole. Hanssen, an FBI agent, had sold U.S. secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Taiwan test fired a locally made Sky Bow II surface-to-air missile for the first time. They also fired three U.S.-made Hawk missiles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Dr. Pepper announced that it would be introducing a new flavor, Red Fusion, for the first time in 117 years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011<\/strong> &#8211; It was announced that Microsoft had closed a deal to purchase the internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong> &#8211; In New York, NY, crane operators hoisted the final pieces of the spire atop One World Trade Center (formerly called the Freedom Tower).<\/li>\n<li><strong>2016<\/strong> &#8211; NASA announced that it&#8217;s Kepler mission had verified 1,284 new planets. This was the single largest finding of planets to date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Samuel Dalembert, Haitian-Canadian basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gustav Fridolin, Swedish journalist and politician,\u00a0Swedish Minister of Education<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Edward Mujica, Venezuelan baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Pe&#8217;er Tasi, Israeli singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jon Schofield, English canoe racer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Emilio Izaguirre, Honduran footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Wilson Chandler, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0K\u00e9vin Constant, French-Guinean footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Salvador P\u00e9rez, Venezuelan baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ivana \u0160panovi\u0107, Serbian long jumper<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Missy Franklin, American swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Gabriella Papadakis, French ice dancer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tyus Jones, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1, Czech tennis player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 10 May 1994 &#8211; Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa\u2019s first black president. 1997 &#8211; An earthquake in northeastern Iran killed at least 2,400 people. 1999 &#8211; China broke off talks on human rights with the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0in response to NATO&#8217;s accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. 1999 &#8211; The Cezanne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[1214],"class_list":{"0":"post-20770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history-of-10-may"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5p0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20796,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770\/revisions\/20796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}