Today is Monday, May 10, the 130th day of 2010. There are 235 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS
On May 10, 1940, during World War II, German forces began invading the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and France. The same day, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government.
ON THIS DATE
In 1774, Louis XVI acceded to the throne of France.
In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Col. Benedict Arnold, captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.
In 1865, Union forces captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Irwinville, Ga.
In 1869, a golden spike was driven in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
In 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was given the job of FBI director.
In 1933, the Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.
In 1960, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton completed its submerged navigation of the globe.
In 2000, high wind drove a fire into a New Mexico canyon, forcing the evacuation of the entire town of Los Alamos. (The fire had been set to contain an earlier blaze intended to clear brush.)
In 2005, a federal bankruptcy judge approved United Airlines’ plan to terminate its employees’ pension plans. Cheered by tens of thousands in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, President George W. Bush urged the spread of democracy across the former communist world and beyond.
In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI urged Middle Eastern Christians to persevere in their faith as 20,000 people filled a Jordanian sports stadium where the pontiff celebrated the first open-air Mass of his Holy Land pilgrimage.
Associated Press
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