About the day » Thursday May 10, 2001Calender converter

• Shane Jay Schreuder, Hoorn († 2001)

• Abbe Bruintjes (77), Meppel
• Cornelia Adriana van Doren- (84), Oosterhout, Nederland
• * Gerrit Zijderveld (82), Leerdam
• Arthur Cornelis Schuttevâer (79), Utrecht, Nederland
• * Cornelia Sophia Hartvelt (85)
• Alida Cornelia Bos (73)
• Alfredo Bezerra Bandeira de Melo (73), Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil
• Arend Kleijer (80)
• Aaltje Alma (93), Noordbergum
• Ann MONTGOMERY, Burnie, Tasmania, Australia

• 1984 » Edward Mujica, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1985 » Jon Schofield, English canoe racer
• 1985 » Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
• 1990 » Ivana Španović, Serbian long jumper
• 1990 » Salvador Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1995 » Gabriella Papadakis, French ice dancer
• 1995 » Missy Franklin, American swimmer
• 1996 » Kateřina Siniaková, Czech tennis player
• 1996 » Tyus Jones, American basketball player

• 1994 » John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator
• 2000 » Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
• 2002 » Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Yves Robert, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Milan Vukcevich, Serbian-American chemist and chess player (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Soraya, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)
• 2008 » Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
• January 12 » Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
• February 12 » NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
• March 4 » BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
• May 25 » Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
• May 29 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
• December 13 » Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.

The temperature on May 10, 2001 was between 12.0 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (94%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.