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| The military commission that took over power a day after President Binaisa fired Oyite Ojok |
TODAY IN HISTORY
1569 May 10, John of Avila (b.1500), Spanish minister and writer, died. He became the patron saint of Spain's diocesan clergy and was considered one of the greatest preachers of his time. He was canonized in 1970. In 2012 Pope Benedict XVI named him as a “doctor” of the Catholic church.
1772 May 10, British Parliament passed the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the colonies.
1773 May 10, To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, Parliament passed the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the American colonies.
1933 May 10, The Nazis staged massive public book burnings at Opernplatz in Berlin, Germany. Some 40,000 people watched or took part. In the great Nazi book-burning frenzy Freud’s work went up in flames, with the declaration: "Down with the soul-devouring exaggeration of instinctive life, up with the nobility of the human soul!" Also burned were books by "unGerman" writers such as: Marx, Brecht, Bloch, Hemingway, Heinrich Mann and Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front.
1940 May 10, Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister
1940 May 10, World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
1980 May 10, Events leading to the deposing of President Binaisa by the Military Commission of the UNLF began May 10 after he dropped Brig. Oyite Ojok from the post of army Chief of Staff, and made him ambassador to Algeria. He has earlier also shifted ministers Muwanga and Museveni to less powerful posts. The six-member military commission headed by Paulo Muwanga took control of the government on May 12, 1980. The coup was staged, not by the NCC as many believed, but by the UNLF's Military Commission, whose members are ; Paulo Muwanga (Chairman), Brig. Ojok, Brig. 'Tito' Okello (UNLA Commander), Yoweri Museveni, Col. Maruru and Col. Omaria .
1994 May 10, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as the first black Prime Minister of South Africa. His party earmarked $4 billion to be spent over ten years to help correct the land imbalance largely due to the forced abandonment by blacks between 1950-80 when about 3.5 million blacks were forcibly trucked off to ethnic territories, often abandoning land, houses and cattle. It was later declared that crimes committed under apartheid up to this time would be considered for pardon under an amnesty act.http://www.nydailynews.com/.../mandela-president-south...
2000 May 10, Pres. Clinton issued an executive order to make drugs for AIDS less expensive in Africa.
2003 May 10, The New York Times announced on its Web site that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had "committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud," according to an investigation conducted by the paper.
2005 May 10, A 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. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/19/georgia.usa
2006 May 10, President Vladimir Putin called population declines of hundreds of thousands a year one of Russia's most serious problems and urged parliament to offer financial incentives for families to have more children. He used his state-of-the-nation speech to call for a big increase in military spending to protect Russian interests world-wide. He dismissed US criticism that the Kremlin is curtailing democratic freedoms.
2007 May 10, Nigeria's Senate cleared outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo of corruption in the management of a multi-billion-dollar oil fund but indicted his deputy. In Port Harcourt gunmen wearing military fatigues jumped from their vehicles and killed two police officers.
2010 May 10, In Rwanda Bernard Hategekimana (aka Mukingo), the former managing editor of a Rwandan newspaper was sentenced by a gacaca court to life in prison after being convicted for his role in inciting the country's 1994 genocide.
2011 May 10, Microsoft announced an $8.5 billion deal to acquire Skype, an Internet voice and video communications company.
2013 May 10, A contingent of about 100 Tanzanian troops began arriving in eastern Congo, a first step in assembling the new UN intervention brigade. 3,000 soldiers from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi were expected in a month or two.
2013 May 10, Newspapers in Liberia printed black front pages after a government official was accused of threatening journalists. The director of the presidential security service reportedly told a journalist: "Be careful, because you have your pens and we have our guns."
Source - wikipedia; http://www.timelines.ws and http://www.historyorb.com
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