This Day In U2 History
May 10
U2 History on this Day
- Bono was born Paul David Hewson in Dublin, Ireland (1960)
- U2Songs.Com team member Aaron J. Sams was born (1973)
- Bono claims to have written “Out of Control” today on his eighteenth birthday, although the line about Monday morning suggests he may have started it a few days earlier. (1978)
- Bono’s daughter Jordan Hewson was born (1989)
- On a chart dated May 10, “Staring at the Sun” peaks in the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the USA at #26. (1997)
U2 Shows on This Day
- 1980: Town Hall Theatre, Ballina, Ireland [U2]
- 1983: Woolsey Hall, New Haven, CT, USA [U2]
- 1993: Stadion Feijenoord, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [U2]
- 2001: Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN, USA [U2]
- 2005: United Center, Chicago, IL, USA [U2]
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