TODAY IN HISTORY - MAY 10TH

1818 – Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735) dies.

1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.

1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865) is born.

1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.

1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.

1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.

1899 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987) is born.

1904 – The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.

1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.

1922 – The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.

1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.

1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.

1957 – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (Sex Pistols) (d. 1979) is born.

1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.

1970 – Bobby Orr scores "The Goal" to win the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals, for the Boston Bruins' fourth NHL championship in their history.

1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.

1994 – John Wayne Gacy, American criminal (b. 1942) dies.

1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

2002 – F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.

2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 meters) 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.

2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.