On This Very Day
May 10th
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- 1869
Golden Spike driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, completing the first US Transcontinental Railroad View Post →
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- 1765
John Harrison awarded £10,000 for naval longitude clock invention by British Longitude Act View Post →
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- 2000
India's population reaches 1 billion, with baby girl Aastha as symbolic billionth
- 1797
United States, the first US Navy ship, is launched
- 1503
Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands
- 1534
Jacques Cartier, French navigator, arrives in Newfoundland
- 1877
President Rutherford B. Hayes installs first White House telephone in telegraph room
- 1910
Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth during 1910 pass
- 1970
Boston Bruins win Stanley Cup Final against St. Louis Blues, first title since 1941
- 1994
Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's first black president
- 1837
New York City banks collapse during Panic of 1837, leading to record unemployment
- 1931
Golf ball-sized hail falls in Burlington, New Jersey
- 1960
USS Triton, US atomic submarine, completes first submerged circumnavigation of the globe
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