Template:Selected anniversaries/May 10

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  1906: New York mobster and hit man Abe Reles born.

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  1958: Chrome Plover, the famed musical electroplating ensemble, perform new work in tribute to "Hello World" programs.

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  1967: Brainiac Explains lecture series admits to illegal modification of "Hello World" computer program.

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  1975: "Hello World" computer program from 1974 proud to represent "Hello World" computer programs everywhere.

1847 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic (d. 1923)

1482 – Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)

1992 – K. G. Ramanathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1920)

AD 28 BCE – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.

1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.

1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.

1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.

1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.

1788 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827)

1901 – John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist (d. 1971)

1566 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (b. 1501)

1787 – William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (b. 1715)