WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY MAY 10

PHOTO CREDITS- WIKIPEDIA/INTERNET ARCHIVE

1994 Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa’s first black president.

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1960 The USS Nautilus completes the first circumnavigation of the globe underwater.

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1954 Bill Haley releases “Rock Around the Clock”

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1944 Judith Jamison, American ballerina.

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1941 England’s House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz: 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs.

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1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.

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1940 German forces begin a blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France’s “impenetrable” Maginot Line.

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1937 Arthur Kopit, American playwright.

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1933 Nazis begin burning books by “unGerman” writers such as Heinrich Mann and Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front.

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1928 WGY-TV in Schenectady, New York, begins regular television programming.

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1924 J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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1920 Richard Adams, English novelist (Watership Down).

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1917 Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic.

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1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

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1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

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1994 Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa’s first black president.

1960 The USS Nautilus completes the first circumnavigation of the globe underwater.

1954 Bill Haley releases “Rock Around the Clock”

1944 Judith Jamison, American ballerina.

1941 England’s House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz: 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs.

1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.

1940 German forces begin a blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France’s “impenetrable” Maginot Line.

1937 Arthur Kopit, American playwright.

1933 Nazis begin burning books by “unGerman” writers such as Heinrich Mann and Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front.

1928 WGY-TV in Schenectady, New York, begins regular television programming.

1924 J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

1920 Richard Adams, English novelist (Watership Down).

1917 Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic.

1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

1908 Carl Albert, U.S. politician.

1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

1902 David O. Selznick, film producer (Gone with the Wind, Rebecca).