This was nearly completed May 23, 1901 with a promise of lights by June 10, but the first light did not go on until September 28.

Those Dodgers won their first 10 games and owned a 21-2 mark and a nine-game lead by May 8.

Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, accompanied by a member of our staff, on May 10 toured plants of two of Italy's biggest companies -- Fiat, the auto producer, and Olivetti, maker of typewriters and calculating machines.

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

10 May 1788

:: L. Marcus Annius Verus Caesar ( after May 162 – 10 September 169 ), died young without issue

On May 10, 2012, NYSE Amex Equities changed its name to NYSE MKT LLC.

By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.

He died in Vienna on 7 May 1825, and was buried in the Matzleinsdorfer Friedhof on 10 May.

AZ was founded on 10 May 1967 as AZ ' 67, the result of a merger of Alkmaar ' 54 and FC Zaanstreek.

The Amir Sher Ali marched up against them from Kandahar ; but in the battle that ensued at Sheikhabad on May 10, he was deserted by a large body of his troops, and after his signal defeat Abdur Rahman released his father, Afzul Khan, from prison in Ghazni, and installed him upon the throne as Amir of Afghanistan.

Fairbanks receives an average 21 hours of daylight between May 10 and August 2 each summer, and an average of less than four hours of daylight between November 18 and January 24 each winter.

During Pope Shenouda III's visit to Rome from 4 to 10 May 1973, Pope Paul VI gave the Coptic Patriarch a relic of Athanasius, which he brought back to Egypt on 15 May.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

However, on 14 May, with considerable skill Marshal Tallard managed to bring 10, 000 reinforcements and vast supplies and munitions through the difficult terrain, whilst outmanoeuvring Baron Thüngen, the Imperial general who sought to block his path.

The Ottomans were superior in number, but on October 10, 1394 ( or 17 May 1395 ), in the Battle of Rovine, on forested and swampy terrain, the Wallachians won the fierce battle and prevented Bayezid from conquering the country.

Powers Fasteners, the makers of the adhesive, revised their product specifications on May 15, 2007 to increase the safety factor from 4 to 10 for all of their epoxy products intended for use in overhead applications.

The visuals in the sequence were updated on 10 May 2010.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

#* Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat ( 16 May 1803 – 10 April 1878 ), married Caroline Georgina Fraser ( 1810 – 1879 ).

" The team's first demonstration before Navy officials took place on 10 May 1946 and was met with enthusiastic approval.

Pavel Holoborodko computed B < sub > n </ sub > for n = 1. 1 * 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > using Harvey's implementation, which is a new record ( May 2012 ).

On 10 May 1810, a squadron consisting of the 36-gun frigate HMS Caroline, formerly French frigate HMS Piedmontaise, 18-gun sloop HMS Barracouta, and the 12-gun transport HMS Mandarin left Madras with money, supplies and troops to support the garrison at Amboyna, recently captured from the Dutch.

On May 6, the Orioles played a 17-inning game against the Boston Red Sox, the first game since 1925 in which both teams used a position player as a pitcher.

The last scene was not shot until May 1925, after 15 months.

When their son, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr, was born on 5 May 1925, Chaplin sent Grey and the child into hiding: it was seen as too close to their wedding, so a fake birth announcement was made to the press at the end of June.

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie () ( 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925 ; signed his name Erik Satie after 1884 ) was a French composer and pianist.

* John Macleod – Nobel Lecture, 26 May 1925

Ribbentrop persuaded his aunt Gertrud von Ribbentrop to adopt him in May 1925, which allowed him to add the aristocratic von to his name.

On May 16, 1925, the first live radio broadcast of the Kentucky Derby was originated by WHAS and was also carried by WGN in Chicago.

When party leader Sun Yat-Sen died in May 1925, he was succeeded by a rightist, Chiang Kai-shek ( 1887 – 1977 ), who was opposed to Mao's involvement.

On May 30, 1925, police from the International Settlement in Shanghai followed the orders of a British policeman and opened fire on a group of protesters, killing 10 and wounding 50.

* 1925 – May 30 Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot 13 protesting workers to death.

* Malcolm Scott Carpenter, USN ( born 1925 ), flew 24 May 1962

Oliver Heaviside FRS ( ( 18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925 ) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations ( later found to be equivalent to Laplace transforms ), reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis.

Pol Pot ( 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998 ), born Saloth Sar (), was a Cambodian Maoist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until his death in 1998.

Saloth Sar was born on May 19, 1925 — the eighth of nine children and the second of three sons to Pen Saloth and Sok Nem.

A splinter group, the Boston Society for Psychical Research existed from May 1925 to 1941.

Scopes, who had substituted for the regular biology teacher, was charged on May 5, 1925, with teaching evolution from a chapter in Civic Biology, a textbook by George William Hunter, that described the theory of evolution.

The latter book was completed in May 1925 and subsequent historians have noted it as unusual, even for its time, for not disclosing any secrets or attacking any of Marshall's enemies.

* May 1 – Pierre Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France ( b. 1925 )

* May 17 – Bobby Hutchins, Our Gang films child actor ( b. 1925 )

* May 17 – Erik Satie, French composer ( d. 1925 )

* May 18 – Marshall Thompson, American actor ( b. 1925 )

* May 3 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst ( d. 1925 )

* May 18 – Oliver Heaviside, British engineer ( d. 1925 )

* May 26 – James Kenyon, British pioneer of cinematography ( d. 1925 )

* May 6 – Aristide Bruant, French cabaret singer and comedian ( d. 1925 )