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Anniversary on the 10th of May 1512

Anniversary
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100 years anniversary
10 May 1925   Edward Fursdon: British Major General (defense council)
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10 May 1925   Edward Fursdon British Major-General (defense council)
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10 May 1925 Scopes hearing
Scopes hearing

   Scopes hearing
In 1925, John T. Scopes was given a preliminary hearing before three judges. He had been arrested and charged under a new Tennessee's state law, the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. Scopes had agreed to participate in a challenge to that law, with the support of local leaders in Dayton, Tennessee, and the American Civil Liberties Union. A few weeks later, on 10 Jul 1925, the trial began, which became known as the “Scope's Monkey Trial”. At its end, on 25 Jul 1925, he was found guilty and fined $100. Although upon appeal the fine was ruled excessive and over-ruled, the state law itself was not found unconstitutional. Thereafter, the law was not enforced, but it was not repealed until 42 years later, on 17 May 1967.
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75 years anniversary
10 May 1950   John G Fletcher: US Poet (Burning Mountain)
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10 May 1950   1st Neth-US telex sent
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10 May 1950   Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (b. 1883)
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10 May 1950   Natalya Bondarchuk, Russian actress and director
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10 May 1950   John G Fletcher US poet (Burning Mountain), dies
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10 May 1950   1st Netherlands-US telex sent
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50 years anniversary
10 May 1975   Adam Deadmarsh: Trail, British Columbia -- NHL center (Colorado Avalanche, Olympics - 1998)
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10 May 1975   Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
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10 May 1975   Adam Deadmarsh Trail British Columbia, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche, Olympics-98)
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10 May 1975   Brian Oldfield of the US put the shotput 75', an unofficial record
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10 May 1975 Betamax
Betamax

   Betamax
In 1975, the first home videocassette recorder, the Betamax, began sales in Japan. The format made by Sony used one-hour tapes, but a competing system was introduced by JVC in the next year called VHS (Video Home System) capable of two-hour recording. Both companies shortly introduced models with twice those playing times. The Betamax was more complex, making them more expensive to manufacture, and more costly to maintain. Accordingly, within a few years, VHS had strong marketing with a lower price, and was the clear winner in the marketplace. Sony grimly continued design and production for what sales they could, but in 2001, Sony made fewer than 3,000 VCRs, sold only in Japan. By the end of 2002, Sony ceased all Betamax production. DVDs were the upcoming battleground..
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25 years anniversary
10 May 2000   Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)
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10 May 2000   Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (b. 1954)
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10 May 2000   Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
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10 May 2000   Bobby Brown was arrested at Newark airport, New Jersey for breaking his probation order. He had been wanted in Florida since 1999 when his probation officer reported that a urine test proved positive for cocaine use.
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10 May 2000   Michael Bolton lost his appeal against a court ruling that he stole part of his 1991 hit 'Love Is a Wonderful Thing' from an Isley Brothers song. Bolton had asked for a retrial following a 1994 jury verdict that he had plagiarised parts of The Isley Brothers song of the same name, but, an appeals court panel upheld the ruling which awarded the group $5.4m (£3.37m) from the profits of Bolton's single - one of his biggest hits.
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20 years anniversary
10 May 2005   A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 meters) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
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10 May 2005   David Wayne, American singer-songwriter (Metal Church, Reverend, and Wayne) (b. 1958)
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10 May 2005   Seal married German supermodel Heidi Klum in a low-key ceremony on a beach in Mexico near the singer's home on the luxurious Costa Careyes.
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15 years anniversary
10 May 2010   Frank Frazetta, American illustrator and painter (b. 1928)
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10 May 2010   New York City's Apollo Theatre began installing bronze plaques on the sidewalk outside the building of legends who had close ties to the theater. Among the first to be honored were James Brown, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and Ella Fitzgerald.
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10 years anniversary
10 May 2015   Rachel Rosenthal, French-American actress and dancer (b. 1926)
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10 May 2015   William T. Cooper, Australian ornithologist and illustrator (b. 1934)
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10 May 2015   Chris Burden, American sculptor, illustrator, and academic (b. 1946)
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10 May 2015   Jack Body, New Zealand composer and photographer (b. 1944)
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10 May 2015   Ninad Bedekar, Indian historian, author, and academic (b. 1949)
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