EST. DECEMBER 1994 β’ 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com π―
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
May 10
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Day 129 of 2026 | Week 19 | 230 days until Christmas π
HISTORIC EVENTS
Start of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of Geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
Queen Elizabeth II misses the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years. It was the first time that a new session of Parliament was opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge acting as Counsellors of State.
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last footholds of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Al-Tabqah, bringing the Battle of Tabqa to an end.
One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.
A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 20Β m from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4Β million in cash and diamonds.
The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.
A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
New Zealand equestrian (Olympic gold Individual eventing 1996
American drummer (Tool)
American actress (The Young & The Restless - "Drucilla")
American politician (Senator-R-Mississippi 2018-)
PhD/Astronaut (STS 56
American politician (Rep-R-Penn 1995-2007)
Japanese game designer and creator of Virtua Fighter series
alpine slalom skier (Olympic gold/silver-80
twin alpine slalom skier (Olympic silver 1980
South African session and touring bassist
Russian television anchor and journalist
American assassin (John Lennon)
South African playwright
Russian cyclist (Olympic gold Soviet Union team time trial 1976; UCI Road World C'ships gold 1977)
American film producer (In the Line of Fire)
π― yow.com Connection
On March 9, 1994 - just months before yow.com would be registered - the internet was still in its infancy. There were only about 3,000 websites in existence, and most people accessed the web through 14.4kbps dial-up modems. Today, you're visiting a domain that has survived 30+ years of that incredible evolution.
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