99 days before August 17, 2003
would be
May 10, 2003 (Saturday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
• Day numbers: 130
• Week number: 19
• Leap year: 2003 is not a leap year
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times for May 10, 2003 (Saturday)
• Sunrise time: 06:24 am
• Sunset time: 08:35 pm
• Day length: 14h 11m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for May 10, 2003 (Saturday)
• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
• Illumination: 65%
• Moon Age: 8.89 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
May 10, 2003 Holidays and National Days
May 10 in History
1994
Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa’s first black president.
1960
The USS Nautilus completes the first circumnavigation of the globe underwater.
1941
England’s House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz: 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs.
1940
German forces begin a blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France’s “impenetrable” Maginot Line.
1940
Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.
1933
Nazis begin burning books by “unGerman” writers such as Heinrich Mann and Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front.
1928
WGY-TV in Schenectady, New York, begins regular television programming.
1924
J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1917
Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic.
1872
Victoria Woodhull becomes first the woman nominated for U.S. president.
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