Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 10

This is a list of selected May 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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May 10: Mother's Day in El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico; Constitution Day in the Federated States of Micronesia

• 1503 – Christopher Columbus and his crew became the first Europeans to visit the Cayman Islands, naming them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.

• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small force of American Patriots led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captured, without significant injury or incident, the small British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga in New York.

• 1824 – The National Gallery in London opened to the public, in the former townhouse of the collector John Julius Angerstein.

• 1833 – Lê Văn Khôi broke out of prison to start a revolt against Vietnamese Emperor Minh Mạng, primarily to avenge the desecration of the grave of his adopted father Lê Văn Duyệt, former viceroy of the southern part of Vietnam.

• 1857 – The Sepoy Mutiny against the company rule by the British East India Company, began.

• 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover (pictured) became the director of the Bureau of Investigation, which would later become the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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