Monday 10 May 2010

Holidays:

• Saint Gordianus
• Saint Isidore the Laborer
• Saint John of Avila
• Saint Job
• Saint Quaratus and Quintus

• Saint Peter Van
• Saint William of Pontoise
• Buddha's Birthday in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and South Korea.
• Saint Francis of Assisi
• Saint Solange
• The first possible day on which Pentecost may fall.
• Akshaya Tritya in Hinduism.
• Astronomy Day in the United States.
• Birds' and Trees' Day in Hungary
• Memorial Day of Blessed Damien of Moloka'i
• Celebration of the Clandestine Retreat of Ma'at and Ra in Ancient Egypt.
• Constitution Day in the Federated States of Micronesia.
• Inauguration Day in South Africa.
• Mania (mythology) in Ancient Rome.
• The marriage of Shiva to Meenakshi in Madurai, India

Famous Birthdays:

Famous Deaths:

• Frank Frazetta: American painter and illustrator (d. 2010).

Facts:

• Iraqi insurgents kill 102 and injure over 200 people, mostly Iraqi civilians, in a series of suicide bombings from Mosul to Basra in Iraq, the highest number in one day this year, and jeopardizing a planned US withdrawal. (''The Times'')
• Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown announces his intention to resign as Leader of the Labour Party, and calls for a leadership election to be completed by September. (BBC)
• President Obama nominates Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the youngest Justice and third woman for the Supreme Court of the United States. (''The Times'')
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government loses its majority in the upper house of parliament in a state election marked by voter anger over the bailout to avoid the Greek debt crisis. (''Los Angeles Times'')
• BP sprays more chemicals into the main massive undersea oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico using a deep-sea robot in an attempt to thin the oil which is rushing up from the seabed at the rate of about 210,000 gallons (795,000 liters) per day. (''USA Today'')

• A mass grave containing the bodies of 250 ethnic Albanians from the Kosovo War is discovered in Serbia. (AFP)
• Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections start today in the Philippines. (BBC)
• The South Korean Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young announces that investigators have found traces of explosives in the wreck of the ROKS ''Cheonan'' that sank in March. (Kyodo)
• Rescue efforts continue in the aftermath of the May 2010 Siberia mine explosion. (RIA Novosti)
• A senior U.S. official, Kurt M. Campbell, meets with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (Press TV)
• Severe rainstorms have killed at least 70 people since a powerful tornado hit Chongqing municipality in south-western China in Dianjiang and Liangping counties. Inclement weather in the next two days will affect Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. (Sina)
• Multiple tornadoes across Oklahoma and Kansas result in at least 5 deaths and 58 injuries. Twisters hit a truck stop near Midwest City and locations in Oklahoma City. (NewsOK)