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May 10, there are 236 days left in this year.<\/p>\n
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1775<\/strong>– Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British.<\/p>\n 1863<\/strong>– Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died after being accidentally shot by his own troops.<\/p>\n 1869<\/strong>– The United States\u2019 first transcontinental railroad was completed with a ceremony in Promontory Summit, Utah.<\/p>\n 1924<\/strong>– J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong>– Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong>– Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa’s first black president.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Birthdays<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1838<\/strong>– John Wilkes Booth, actor, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n 1850<\/strong>– Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, Scottish merchant<\/p>\n 1899<\/strong>– Fred Astaire, actor\/dancer<\/p>\n 1902<\/strong>– David O. Selznick, film producer, Gone With the Wind<\/em><\/p>\n 1916<\/strong>– Milton Babbitt, composer<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong>– Bono, lead singer, U2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN STAFF May 10, there are 236 days left in this year. 1775– Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga from… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-26849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26850,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26849\/revisions\/26850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}