May 10 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 225 days remaining until the end of time.
1497 Old Muffin-top Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World
1752 Benjamin Franklin 1st tests the lightning rod
1924 J. Edgar Hoover, who is pretty enough to be gay, is appointed head[case] of US Federal Bureau of Investigation
1947 "Chocolate Soldier" closes at Century Theater New York City after 69 performances. Indeed.
1954 Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts
1986 Tommy Lee, drummer of Motley Crue, marries Heather Locklear. And, how’d that work out?
1994 Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists who have smaller dicks than his.
1994 Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
1996 "Twister" premieres although I seem to remember it from a much earlier date
2005 A hand grenade which was thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from US President George W. Bush while he was giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate. Good pitchers are such a rare commodity these days.
1899 Fred Astaire, US actor/singer/dancer/choreographer
1940 Daisuke Inoue, maybe gay (or just happy) Japanese inventor of Karaoke machine
1957 Sid Vicious [John Beverley], English musician (Sex Pistols)/actor
1958 Rick Santorum, gay-obsessed former US Senator from PA/Presidential aspirant
1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), stops rebelling eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops during the American Civil War.
1994 John Wayne Gacy, US clown/mass murderer, unfortunately, does not get the shock of his life that he so richly deserves
2000 André "Dédé" Fortin, maybe gay Quebeçois singer and songwriter (Les Colocs), travers les brumes
1882 Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, CT, giving Roman Catholic gentlemen an opportunity to dress fabulously!
1887 In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed. Science has subsequently demonstrated that groundhogs are poor predictors of weather change.
1926 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours. Ah, the Gay Twenties.
1964 GI Joe debuts as a popular American boy's doll. You know you totally checked him out!
1974 Barbra Streisand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were". Lucky bitch! HUBBLE!
