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The 1980 Zimbabwe women's national field hockey team won the gold medal at that year's Summer Olympics in Moscow in the Soviet Union. The 16 teammates, all from Zimbabwe's white minority, were assembled less than a month before the Olympics, after an American-led boycott reduced the number of teams competing. It was the first time the women's field hockey event had been held at the Olympics. After beating Poland and the Soviet Union and drawing with Czechoslovakia and India, the Zimbabweans secured the gold on the final day with a 4–1 victory over Austria. Their victory was considered a huge upset, particularly considering the short time the team had to prepare. Won at a time of great transition in Zimbabwe (formerly as Rhodesia, the country had been barred from the previous three Olympics, and only in April 1980 had Zimbabwe achieved international recognition of its independence), the gold medal was the nation's first Olympic medal of any colour. The players were dubbed the "Golden Girls" by the Zimbabwean press and were briefly national celebrities. Zimbabwe did not win another Olympic medal until 2004. (Full article...)

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The UK's Conservative Party, led by David Cameron (pictured), wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons.
Pakistan declares a national day of mourning after a helicopter crash kills eight people including two ambassadors to Pakistan.
A newly discovered species of prehistoric bird, Archaeornithura meemannae, becomes the oldest known member of Ornithuromorpha, a clade that contains all modern birds.
In snooker, Stuart Bingham wins the World Championship.
In association football, Chelsea win the Premier League.
Violent protests occur in Burundi after the country's president, Pierre Nkurunziza, announces that he will seek a third term.

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May 10: Mother's Day in several countries (2015); Independence Day in Romania (1877)

1503 – Christopher Columbus and his crew became the first Europeans to visit the Cayman Islands, naming them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.
1837 – Banks in New York City suspended specie payments, triggering a seven-year recession in the United States.
1857 – The Sepoy Mutiny against the company rule by the British East India Company began.
1940 – British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (pictured) resigned and formally recommended Winston Churchill as his successor.
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.

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Chandiroor Divakaran (b. 1946) is a Malayalam–language poet and folk song writer from Kerala, India. He has published numerous collections of poetry since his debut collection, Radha, in 1965.

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