Template:On this day/May 10

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

May 10:

• 1871 – The adventurous Benjamin Franklin Ficklin died, but not from a bullet, arrow, or cannonball. Rather, a jagged fishbone lodged in his throat during a dinner. Born in Albemarle County, Ficklin was a soldier, adventurer, and entrepreneur known for his help in starting the Pony Express and for establishing other stage coach and mail routes in the United States during the nineteenth century.