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May 10, there are 236 days left in this year.
1775– Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
1863– Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died after being accidentally shot by his own troops.
1869– The United States’ first transcontinental railroad was completed with a ceremony in Promontory Summit, Utah.
1924– J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI.
1940– Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.
1994– Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa’s first black president.
Birthdays
1838– John Wilkes Booth, actor, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
1850– Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, Scottish merchant
1899– Fred Astaire, actor/dancer
1902– David O. Selznick, film producer, Gone With the Wind
1916– Milton Babbitt, composer
1960– Bono, lead singer, U2