{"id":37880,"date":"2018-05-10T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=37880"},"modified":"2018-05-09T13:11:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:11:44","slug":"this-day-in-history-winston-churchill-becomes-british-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=37880","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History — Winston Churchill Becomes British Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 10<\/h3>\n

1775
\nEthan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British.<\/p>\n

1863
\nConfederate General Stonewall Jackson died after being accidentally shot by his own troops.<\/p>\n

1869
\nThe United States\u2019 first transcontinental railroad was completed with a ceremony in Promontory Summit, Utah.<\/p>\n

1924
\nJ. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI.<\/p>\n

1940
\nWinston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.<\/p>\n

1994
\nNelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa’s first black president.<\/p>\n

Birthdays<\/h3>\n

John Wilkes Booth
\nPronunciation: [wilks]\n1838\u201365, American actor, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, born near Bel Air, Md.<\/p>\n

Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton
\nmerchant (1850)<\/p>\n

Fred Astaire
\ndancer (1899)<\/p>\n

David O. Selznick
\nfilm producer (1902)<\/p>\n

Milton Babbitt
\ncomposer (1916)<\/p>\n

Bono
\nsinger (1960)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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