Holidays Calendar for May 10, 2018

The citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia annually observe Constitution Day on May 10. This is a public holiday.

The Feast of the Ascension (also known as Ascension Day or Ascension Thursday) is celebrated 39 days after Easter. It commemorates the Ascension of Jesus into heaven. In some countries, Ascension Day is a public holiday.

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The Feast of the Ascension is one of the ecumenical (universally celebrated) feasts of Christian churches. In the Armenian Apostolic Church it is also known as the Feast of Holy Ascension or Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

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World Lupus Day is observed annually on May 10. It was created to raise awareness of a chronic autoimmune disease that affects millions of people of all over the world and is very hard to diagnose due to its varied symptoms.

Bank Employees Day is one of the official professional holidays in the Kyrgyz Republic. It is celebrated annually on May 10 to commemorate the introduction of the som — the country’s currency — on this day in 1993.

Book Day (Tag des Buches), also known as Free Book Day (Tag des freien Buches), is a German observance held on May 10 every year. It is another somber reminder of the Nazi regime’s monstrosities.

May 10 is Independence Day in Romania. Although the holiday celebrates one of the major events in the history of Romania, Independence Day is a working holiday.

Confederate Memorial Day, also known as Confederate Heroes Day or Confederate Decoration Day in some states, is observed in the Southern United States to honor the memory of Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. It was originally observed on April 26 to commemorate the surrender of the Army of Tennessee at Bennett Place, but these days, its dates in different states vary from January 19 to the second Saturday of October.

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May 10 is National Shrimp Day. Today you have a great opportunity to cook shrimps to celebrate the holiday.

Flower Festival is an annual celebration, that is held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Although this is an unofficial holiday, it became very popular in Azerbaijan.

National Lipid Day is observed annually on May 10. It was created to raise awareness of dyslipidemia, a condition characterized by abnormal level of lipids in the blood, and encourage people to monitor their blood lipid levels in order to prevent cardiovascular disease.

The International Day of Argania is a United Nations international day observed annually on May 10. It was established to celebrate the argan tree and highlight its importance to sustainable development in Morocco.

Mother's Day is usually celebrated in the spring, most often in May. For instance, El Salvador, Mexico and Guatemala celebrate Mother's Day on May 10. This is not a public holiday, that is why no one receives a day off, but at the same time it's one more reason to celebrate motherhood and show love and respect to all mothers.

Children's Day is celebrated in the Maldives every year on May 10. This holiday is awaited by children as well as by their parents and teachers.

In Germany, Father's Day (Vatertag) coincides with the Feast of Ascension. This holiday is also regionally referred to as Men's Day (Männertag) or Gentlemen's Day (Herrentag).

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This Day in History

  • 2012 Two car bombs were detonated outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people and injuring almost 400 others.
  • 2012 Died: Evelyn Bryan Johnson, nicknamed Mama Bird, American aviator who was the female pilot with the most number of flying hours in the world.
  • 2005 In Georgia, Vladimir Arutyunian attempted to assassinate US President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
  • 2001 Died: Deborah Walley, American actress who is primarily remembered for her role as Gidget in the 1961 film Gidget Goes Hawaiian.
  • 1999 Died: Shel Silverstein, also known as Uncle Shelby, American author of children's books, poet, screenwriter, cartoonist, and singer-songwriter.
  • 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated, becoming the first black president of South Africa. His inauguration was televised to a billion viewers all over the world.
  • 1992 Born: Jake Zyrus (born Charice Pempengco), Filipino singer who is known for playing the role of Sunshine Corazon on the FOX TV series Gle (prior his gender transitioning to male).
  • 1977 Died: Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur), American film and television actress who won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Actress.
  • 1975 Sony released the Betamax videocassette tape recorder in Japan. Subsequently, the Betamax and VHS formats competed in a fierce format war.
  • 1967 Died: Lorenzo Bandini, Italian motor racing driver who raced in Formula One. He died in an accident during the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix.
  • 1957 Born: Sid Vicious (born John Simon Ritchie), English bass guitarist and vocalist primarily remembered as a member of the punk rock band The Sex Pistols.
  • 1955 Born: Mark David Chapman, American who is known for murdering John Lennon. He was imprisoned in 1981 and is still in prison, as of February 2015.
  • 1949 Born: Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur behind the labels Prada and Miu Miu. Her grandfather Mario founded Prada.
  • 1938 Born: Marina Vlady (born Marina de Poliakoff-Baidaroff), French actress, winner of the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
  • 1933 The Nazis ceremoniously burnt approximately 25,000 volumes of "un-German" books. So an era of state censorship in the Third Reich began.
  • 1930 Born: George E. Smith, American applied physicist who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Charles K. Kao and Willard S. Boyle.
  • 1927 John Edgar Hoover became the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (then the Bureau of Investigation). He served until his death in 1972.
  • 1923 Born: Heydar Aliyev, Azerbaijani general, politician, and statesman who served as the 3rd President of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003
  • 1899 Born: Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz), American dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, and musician whose career spanned more than seven decades.
  • 1889 Died: Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian editor and writer, a major Russian satirist of the 19th century. He is best known for his novel The Golovlyov Family.
  • 1838 Born: John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor who is best remembered as the person who assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln.
  • 1829 Died: Thomas Young, English polymath who made significant contributions to solid mechanics, musical harmony, physiology, Egyptology and other fields.
  • 1824 The National Gallery in London opened to the public. At the time, it was located at Pall Mall. The gallery was founded by John Julius Angerstein.
  • 1798 Died: George Vancouver, English officer of the British Royal Navy best known for his 1791–1795 expedition. The Canadian city of Vancouver was named after him.
  • 1796 The Battle of Lodi was fought during the French Revolutionary Wars. French forces led by General Napoleon Bonapart defeated Austrian troops.
  • 1774 Died: Louis XV of France, known as Louis the Beloved, monarch of the House of Bourbon. He ruled the country from 1715 until his death.
  • 1773 The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Tea Act, granting the British East India Company a monopoly on the tea trade in North America.
  • 1760 Born: Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French army officer who is known for creating La Marseillaise, the national anthem of France.
  • 1692 Died: Sarah Osborne, one of the first three women to be accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trails of 1692. She died in jail.
  • 1503 Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands and named them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles he encountered.