Film and TV History on May 10
- 1849 Astor Place Riot: Backers of American actor and working class hero Edwin Forrest attempt to disrupt British actor William McReady's performance at Astor Place Opera House in NYC; Military troops supporting police shoot at the crowd, killing between 22 and 31 [1]
1952 5th Cannes Film Festival: "The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice" directed by Orson Welles and "Two Cents Worth of Hope" directed by Renato Castellani jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
- 1953 KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 8th Cannes Film Festival: "Marty" directed by Delbert Mann wins Palme d'Or
1956 9th Cannes Film Festival: "The Silent World" directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle wins the Palme d'Or
- 1956 KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno, CA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
Music History
1961 Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller comedy revue "Beyond the Fringe" opens at the Fortune Theatre in London's West End
Film & TV History
1973 Bruce Lee collapses in Golden Harvest studios in Hong Kong and is rushed to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital where doctors diagnose him with cerebral edema
Radio Premiere
1976 Paul Harvey's daily syndicated program "The Rest of the Story" premieres on the ABC Radio Networks, continuing until his death in 2009
- 1982 WABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network
Radio History
1982 WABC radio (NYC) plays its last record - John Lennon's "Imagine" - and switches to all-talk format
Radio History
1990 Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for radio rival John DeBella, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to celebrate a ratings victory
- 1993 Last TV appearance of Dutch television presenter Mies Bouwman
Music Concert
1994 Barbra Streisand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years, at the Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland (after "warm-up" shows in Las Vegas and London)
Film & TV History
2015 61st British Academy Television Awards: "The Graham Norton Show" Best Comedy, "Happy Valley" Best Drama
- 2019 YouTube dispute between beauty vloggers James Charles and Tati Westbrook viewed more than 40 million times
- 2021 NBC says it will not televise the 2022 Golden Globes because of criticism of its lack of diversity [1]
- 2023 First draft of a human ‘pangenome’ published, with DNA from 47 people, including from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe in effort to capture entirety of human genetic variation, "like going from black-and-white television to 1080p” [1]
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