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Saturday May 10, 2014 This is the 130th day of the year, with 235 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: horses The horse belongs to the family of mammals called the Equidae. Horses are fast, powerful mammals that have been useful for thousands of years. They were used first as transportation and then, when the harness was invented, to help farmers with work. They were also used by cavalries, with and without the aid of saddles. Horses evolved from a doglike creature and were first tamed around 4,500 years ago. They feed on grass and have one large toenail on each foot called a hoof. There are more than 300 breeds of domestic horse, divided into three groups: heavy horses, light horses, and ponies.
Holidays Feast day of St. Catald, St. Conleth, Saints Gordian and Epimachus, St. Antoninus, St. Alphius, St. Calepodius, St. Solange, and St. John of Avila.
Micronesia: National Day (1979).
Singapore: Vesak Day (Buddha's entry into Nirvana).
Guatemala, Mexico: Mother's Day.
North Carolina, South Carolina: Confederate Memorial Day.
Events 1503 - Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands.
1775 - Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, New York.
1865 - Union forces captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis, in Georgia.
1869 - A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
1872 - Victoria Woodhull became first woman nominated for U.S. president.
1908 - The first Mother's Day observance took place during church services in Grafton, West Virginia and Philadelphia.
1924 - J. Edgar Hoover became FBI director, a job he was to hold until his death in 1972.
1940 - Neville Chamberlain resigned as British Prime Minister, replaced by Winston Churchill.
1941 - The House of Commons was destroyed in the heaviest air raid of London.
1960 - The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Triton completed its circumnavigation of the globe after 84 days.
1979 - The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
1981 - Socialist Francois Mitterrand defeated incumbent Valery Giscard d'Estaing in France's presidential election.
1994 - In South Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is sworn in as that country's first black president.
1997 - Pope John Paul II visits Lebanon.
2003 - The "New York Times" announced that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had "committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud."
2005 - A new Holocaust memorial is dedicated in Germany; officially called the "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe."
Births 1832 - William Grace, Irish-born American ship-owner; founder of W. R. Grace & Company.
1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States.
1899 - Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz), American dancer, actor.
1902 - David O. Selznick, American movie producer.
1936 - Gary Owens, American comic actor and announcer.
1955 - Mark David Chapman, assassin of John Lennon.
1957 - Sid Vicious (born John Simon Ritchie/Beverley), English bassist for the punk band the Sex Pistols.
1960 - Bono (born Paul David Hewson), lead singer and principal lyricist of the Irish rock band U2.
1963 - Lisa Nowak, American astronaut.
1976 - Rob Malda, also known as CmdrTaco, is one of the founders of Slashdot.
1977 - Nick Heidfeld, German Formula One driver.
Deaths 1424 - Go-Kameyama, 99th Emperor of Japan.
1774 - King Louis XV of France.
1792 - John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey.
1818 - Paul Revere, American Revolution hero.
1863 - Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson died of pneumonia a week after losing his arm from friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville.
1897 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino leader of the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial rule in the late 19th century.
1977 - Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay Le Sueur), American actress.
1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz trumpet player and composer.
1990 - Walker Percy, an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics.
1999 - Shel Silverstein, American poet, cartoonist, and composer.
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