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The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.

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Kingman Reef

Reef and unincorporated U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean

Kingman Reef is a largely submerged, uninhabited, triangle-shaped reef, geologically an atoll, 9.0 nmi (20 km) east-west and 4.5 nmi (8 km) north-south, in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa. It has an area of 3 hectares and…
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May 10

Day of the year

May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 235 days remain until the end of the year.
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