What do Marie Antoinette, Marvel Comics and Mother’s Day have in common?
12 Surprising Milestones That Happened on May 10
By Michelle Carr Crowe, Silicon Valley real estate guide selling homes in San Jose
What do Marie Antoinette, Marvel Comics and Mother’s Day have in common? All 3 share an important anniversary today, May 10, 2013.
Are you an inquisitive person who enjoys learning? If you’ve read my blog, you know one of the pastimes I enjoy is discovering new facts and interesting pieces of history.
I like to share intriguing stories from our local newspaper the San Jose Mercury News, as well as my favorite print and online magazines Mental Floss, the National Geographic Society or Smithsonian Magazine. Other times I find articles or facts online at The History Place, Brainy History,or Dates In History. These events for today’s blog post are primarily from Wikipedia.
While these interesting items are intriguing, they have nothing to do with my real estate business, helping people like you buy and sell homes in Cupertino Schools in San Jose, Saratoga and Santa Clara, Calif. They just add fun and fascination to life.
Here are today’s 12 Surprising Milestones That Happened on May 10. I hope you find them interesting, too.
- 1503 – Explorer Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
- 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
- 1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
- 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
- 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
- 1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
- 1916 – Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
- 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
- 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
- 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
- 1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
- 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
Thank you for reading. You may want to read my blog at www.activerain.com/results for more fun facts on history, real estate, home, life and other topics. I hope you learned something new from reading about these 12 Surprising Milestones That Happened on May 10.
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