May 10 in history: • 1627 – Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts was appointed governor of Formosa (modern-day Taiwan) by the Dutch East India Company. → go there • 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary corsairs of Tripoli declared war on the United States by cutting down the flagstaff in front of the U.S. consulate. → go there • 1941 – World War II: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess (pictured) parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the British government. → go there • 1994 – American serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed between 1972 and 1978. → go there • 2012 – Suicide bombers detonated two car bombs outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, killing 55 people. → go there Died 884: Ahmad ibn Tulun Wiki link Born 1893: Tonita Peña Wiki link Born 1963: Lisa Nowak Wiki link Born 1997: Richarlison Wiki link Pictured: Rudolf Hess.