This Day in History

May 10th in History

The Golden Spike is driven! In other news, the Supreme Court declares tomatoes to be vegetables and J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the FBI. It's the birthday of John Wilkes Booth, Fred Astaire, and Bono; Paul Revere and Stonewall Jackson die. Happy Micronesian Constitution Day!

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Quote of the Day

"The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another — it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time."

John Scalzi, science fiction writer born May 10, 1969