On This Day
10 May
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1857 The Revolt of 1857 began at Meerut as a sepoy mutiny. It was initiated by sepoys in the Bengal Presidency against the British officers.
- 1857 Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected President of India for a second term.
- 1927 Nayantara Sahgal, author who writes in English, was born. She is a member of the Nehru–Gandhi family, the second of the three daughters born to Jawaharlal Nehru's sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. She was awarded the 1986 Sahitya Akademi Award for her English novel Rich Like Us.
- 2000 India’s population reached 100 crores.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1752 Benjamin Franklin first tested his lightning rod to prove that lightning is electricity.
- 1910 Halley's Comet approach of Earth the second last time. The last visit was in 1986.
- 1933 Nazis ceremonially burn about 25,000 allegedly "un-German" books.
- 1960 The USS Nautilus completes the first circumnavigation of the globe underwater.
- 1994 Nelson Mandela was sworn in as president of South Africa, the country's first multi-ethnic government.
- 1994 Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black president.
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