MONDAY, MAY 10, 2010

Today is Monday, May 10, the 130th day of 2010. There are 235 days left in the year.

1497 _ Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for first voyage to New World

1503 _ Columbus discovers Cayman Islands

1752 _ Benjamin Franklins first tests the lightning rod

1787 _ Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings

1908 _ First Mother's Day observed (Philadelphia)

1933 _ Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany

1940 _ Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British P.M.

1972 _ Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77

1983 _ Lee Chin-yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul

1994 _ Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's first black president