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Historical Events
on May 10th
- Lead Story
- Transcontinental railroad completed,1869
- American Revolution
- Second Continental Congress assembles as Ticonderoga falls,1775
- Automotive
- Government gives Chrysler $1.5 billion loan,1980
- Civil War
- Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson dies,1863
- Cold War
- China releases Tiananmen Square prisoners,1990
- Crime
- J. Edgar Hoover begins his legacy with the FBI,1924
- Disaster
- Death on Mount Everest,1996
- General Interest
- Jefferson Davis captured,1865
- Churchill becomes prime minister,1940
- Nelson Mandela inaugurated,1994
- Hollywood
- Joan Crawford dies,1977
- Literary
- The final volume of Tom Jones is published,1749
- Music
- "Mother" Maybelle Carter is born,1909
- Old West
- First transcontinental railroad is completed,1869
- Presidential
- Hayes has first phone installed in White House,1877
- Sports
- Bobby Orr leads Bruins to Stanley Cup title,1970
- Vietnam War
- Operation Apache Snow is launched,1969
- Intense air war continues over North Vietnam,1972
- World War I
- Treaty of Frankfurt am Main ends Franco-Prussian War,1871
- World War II
- As Germany invades Holland and Belgium, Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain,1940
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