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May 10th ....
1497 - Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World.
1652 - John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va.....
1837 - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels..
1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US president.......
1915 - Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea (UK)...
1941 - Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland..
2005 - A hand grenade which was thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he was giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate........
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