May 10: Mother's Day in several countries (2015); Independence Day in Romania (1877)
- 1503 – Christopher Columbus and his crew became the first Europeans to visit the Cayman Islands, naming them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.
- 1837 – Banks in New York City suspended specie payments, triggering a seven-year recession in the United States.
- 1857 – The Sepoy Mutiny against the company rule by the British East India Company began.
- 1940 – British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (pictured) resigned and formally recommended Winston Churchill as his successor.
- 1994 – American serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed between 1972 and 1978.
More anniversaries: May 9 – May 10 – May 11
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