5:10
This , the evening of May 12 , 2430 , was for me -- and for all the Earth -- the most stirring evening of history . Events of inter-planetary importance tumbled over each other as they came to us through the air from the Official Information Stations . And we -- myself and a thousand like me in our office -- retold them for our twenty million subscribers throughout the Anglo-Saxon Nation . The President of the Anglo-Saxon Republic was murdered at 5:10 . It was the first of the new murders . I say new murders , for not in two hundred years had the life of so high an official been wilfully taken . But it was only the first .