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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Today in History

1285
Philip III of Spain is succeeded by Philip IV ("the Fair").
1503
Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands.
1676
Bacon's Rebellion begins in the New World.
1773
To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, Parliament passes the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the American colonies.
1774
Louis XVI succeeds his father Louis XV as King of France.
1775
American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
1794
Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI, is beheaded.
1796
Napoleon Bonaparte wins a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy.
1840
Mormon leader Joseph Smith moves his band of followers to Illinois to escape the hostilities they experienced in Missouri.
1857
The Bengal Army in India revolts against the British.
1863
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson succumbs to illness and wounds received during the Battle of Chancellorsville.
1865
Union cavalry troops capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irvinville, Georgia.
1869
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah.
1859
French emperor Napoleon III leaves Paris to join his troops preparing to battle the Austrian army in Northern Italy.
1872
Victoria Woodhull becomes first woman nominated for U.S. president.
1917
Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic.
1924
J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1928
WGY-TV in Schenectady, New York, begins regular television programming.
1933
Nazis begin burning books by "unGerman" writers such as Heinrich Mann and Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front.
1940
German forces begin a blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France's "impenetrable" Maginot Line.
1940
Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.
1941
England's House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz: 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs.
1960
The USS Nautilus completes first circumnavigation of globe underwater.
1994
Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa's first black president.

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