May 10

Today in History
• 1267 - Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
• 1278 - Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining
• 1291 - Scottish nobles recognize authority of English King Edward I
• 1503 - Columbus discovers Cayman Islands
• 1534 - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland
• 1652 - John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va
• 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion begins, frontiersmen vs Virginia government
• 1775 - Second Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Micronesia Constitution Day
• Mother Ocean Day
• Mother's Day Mexico
• National Golf Day
• National School Nurse Day
• National Washington Day
• One Day Without Shoes
• World Orienteering Day

Birthdays
• 1265 - Fushimi, 92nd Emperor of Japan (1265-98)
• 1536 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English nobleman and Earl Marshal
• 1730 - George Ross, American judge (signed US Declaration of Independence)
• 1770 - Louis Nicholas Davout, French Field Marshal, defeated Prussians
• 1788 - Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, German queen
• 1813 - Montgomery Blair, Franklin County, Kentucky, lawyer, Dred Scot V Sandford
• 1878 - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor, 1923, Nobel 1926
• 1910 - Margot Turner, matron-in-chief, Army Nursing Service