Today in History - History - May 10th

1993Paul Cézanne still life painting sells for US$28,600,000 in NYC

1964Mickey Wright wins LPGA Squirt Ladies' Golf Open Invitational

1990Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella

1534French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland

2013Joe Sakic is hired by his former team, the Colorado Avalanche, as Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations

1941Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland

1973Bruce Lee collapses in Golden Harvest studios in Hong Kong and is rushed to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital where doctors diagnose him with cerebral edema

2005A hand grenade which was thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian 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.

192964th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane

1924J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI

1909Maybelle Carter, Nickelsville Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)

1899Fred Astaire, Omaha Neb, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime)

1960Bono [Paul Hewson], Dublin, Ireland, rocker (U2-Joshua Tree)

1930Pat Summerall, Lake City Florida, NFL player (NY Giants)/sportscaster (CBS)

1957Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie], London England, bassist (Sex Pistols)

1838John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin (President Lincoln)

2005Actress and model Heidi Klum (39) weds British soul and R&B singer-songwriter Seal (49) in Costa Careyes, Mexico

19271954 Nobel Prize winner in Literature Ernest Hemingway (27) weds journalist Pauline Pfeiffer (31)

1994John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52

1818Paul Revere, American patriot, dies

1863Thomas Jackson, ["Stonewall"], Confederate general (Civil War), dies at 39

1955Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer, dies of a heart attack at 73