May 10

May 10 is the 130th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. It is preceded by May 9, and succeeded by May 11. Following May 10, there are 235 days in the year.

Blavatsky's Gem of the Day

"If one man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greater of the two conquerors."

Events

• 1889 – Annie Besant meets H. P. Blavatsky in Paris. According to Charles Johnston she joined the Theosophical Society on this day.
• 1891 – Col. Olcott receives a cablegram about Mme. Blavatsky's passing, after having had three distinct psychic warnings about the fact on the 8th and 9th of May.

Births

• 1809 – Baron de Palm, at Augsburg, in an ancient baronial family of Bavaria. (d. May 20, 1876)

Deaths

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Holidays and observances

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External links

• This Date in Wikipedia