Today in History for 10th May 2022

Historical Events

1267 - Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
1643 - Essex County, Massachusetts is founded, which contains the town of Salem in which the notorious witch-trials will occur in 1692
1893 - 19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout wins in 2:39.25
1906 - Russian Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
1969 - US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam
2003 - The May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence takes place.

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Famous Birthdays

1911 - Alexander Goode, American US Navy chaplain and rabbi (The Four Chaplains), born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 1943)
1923 - Herb Carneal, American sports broadcaster (Minnesota Twins 1962-2006; Ford C. Frick Award 1996), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2007)
1943 - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete (400 metres) (d. 2008)
1944 - Jackie Lomax, English singer-songwriter (Is This What You Want), born in Liverpool, England (d. 2013)
1958 - Ellen Ochoa, PhD/Astronaut (STS 56, 66), born in Los Angeles, California
1968 - Al Murray, British comedian

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Famous Deaths

1290 - Duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271)
1950 - Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist, dies at 66
1974 - Hal Mohr [Harold Leon Mohr], American Cinematographer and husband of Evelyn Venable (Captain Blood), dies at 74
2000 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer and songwriter (Les Colocs) (b. 1962)
2003 - Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and a grandmaster of chess problem composition, dies at 66
2017 - Geoffrey Bayldon, British stage and screen actor (Catweazle; Worzel Gummidge - "Crowman"), dies at 93

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