Today in history

May 10

1857
Beginning of the Sepoy Rebellion in Meerat, India; becomes known as the Great Mutiny against British Imperial rule.
1872
Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for the U.S. presidency, by the National Equal
Rights party.
1910
British government jails Tom Mann for six months for urging soldiers not to shoot striking workers.
1920
England: Dock workers refuse to load armaments for use by Allies against Russia.
1940
The South registers its first full year without any reported lynching.
1967
Captain Howard Levy jailed three years for refusing to train U.S. soldiers for Vietnam.

1968
Peace talks began between the US and North Vietnam with W. Averell Harriman representing the United States, and former Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy heading the North Vietnamese delegation.
The Paris Peace treaty was finally signed on January 27, 1973.

1980
The National Organization for Women (NOW) organized 85,000 people to march in Chicago in support of Illinois ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

a chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1923-1996

1980
A federal judge in Salt Lake City, Utah, found the U.S. government negligent for its above-ground testing of nuclear weapons in Nevada from 1951 to 1962.

The land of the Nevada Test Site is scarred with craters from nuclear testing

1980
10-May World Court orders U.S. to stop mining of Nicaraguan harbors. (1984)
1989
Cree of northern Quebec file suit to stop construction of $7.5 billion Great Whale Project, a dam so massive it would have altered weather patterns in North America. After seven years of massive grass roots opposition, Quebec government agreed in early 1996 to postpone it.
1992
Women resist mobilization of kinsmen, Tresnjevac, Serbia.
1993
10-May 188 die, 469 injured in fire at Kader toy factory in Thailand, used by Hasbro & other US companies. Deaths were blamed on doors & windows locked to keep sweatshop workers on the job.
1994
Nelson Mandela was inaugurated following his election as South Africa’s first black president after more than three centuries of exclusively white rule, and nearly three decades of his imprisonment for the struggle to attain political and civil rights for all South Africans.