About the day » Wednesday May 10, 2006Calender converter

• Carina Kramer (43)
• Anna Durks Westra (76), Kollum
• Alexander Ferdinand (Lex) Wouters (85)
• Anna Hendrika Korte (89), Hengelo
• Cornelis den Haan (90), Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Somers (85), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Barbara May (58), Michigan (USA)
• Berdina Maria Wilhelmina Mulder (90), Bennebroek
• Cornelia Tintel (90), 's-Gravenzande
• Alie Kalksma (66), Den Oever (Wieringen)

• 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

• 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)
• 2010 » Frank Frazetta, American illustrator and painter (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Horst Faas, German photographer and journalist (b. 1933)

1. Jop
2. Thijs
3. Thomas
4. Sem
5. Lucas
6. Daan
7. Stijn
8. Lars
9. Tim
10. Milan
11. Jan
12. Jesse
13. Ruben
14. Niels
15. Miquel
16. Gerrit

1. Emma
2. Fleur
3. Sanne
4. Anna
5. Joanna
6. Sophie
7. Marit
8. Julia
9. Maria
10. Arieanna
11. Anouk
12. Leonore
13. Lotte
14. Anne
15. Iris
16. Eva

• 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• April 11 » Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
• May 12 » Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
• September 17 » An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
• September 17 » Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.
• November 23 » A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
• December 6 » NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

The temperature on May 10, 2006 was between 9.8 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.