Today in History - History - May 10th

1953Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open

1796Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge

1970Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1503Columbus discovers Cayman Islands

1534French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland

1948Winston Churchill visits The Hague

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

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

1940Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister

1990Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1818Paul Revere, American patriot, dies

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

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

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