Wednesday, May 10, 2000
History today -- 12:49 pm CST, Update by The Master
- 1775: Ethan Allen leads capture of British fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.
- 1865: Union forces capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Irwinville, GA.
- 1869: Union & Central Pacific Rail lines are joined at Promontory, UT, with the driving of a golden spike.
- 1924: J. Edgar Hoover becomes FBI director.
- 1933: Nazi and Nationalist students and professors burn books written by authors that Adolph Hitler calls "un-German".
- 1940: Winston Churchill took over as Prime Minister of Great Britian following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
- 1941: Rudolph Hess is capture after parachuting into Scotland on a "peace mission".
- 1945: Soviet troops occupy Prague. Allied forces defeat Japanese forces at Rangoon.
- 1994: Nelson Mandela sworn as first black President of South Africa.
- 1995: Great Britain lifts ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA.
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