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May 10 | |
| 1898 | Birth date of Ariel Durant, historian. (died 10/25/81) |
| 1899 | Birth date of Fred Astaire, dancer and film star. (died 22 June 1987) |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as Britain's Prime Minister. |
| 1940 | German blitzkrieg begins against Belgium and the Netherlands. |