This Day in History: May 10

By Bryan Robinson

On this day, May 10 ...

1924: J. Edgar Hoover is named acting director of the Bureau of Investigation (later known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI).

Also on this day:

1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union forces in Irwinville, Ga.
1869: A golden spike is driven in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
1933: The Nazis stage massive public book burnings in Germany.
1940: During World War II, German forces begin invading the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and France. The same day, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns, and Winston Churchill forms a new government.
1963: The Rolling Stones record their first single for Decca Records in London, covering Chuck Berry’s “Come On” and “I Want to Be Loved” by Willie Dixon.
1975: Sony begins selling its Betamax home videocassette recorder in Japan.
1994: Nelson Mandela takes the oath of office in Pretoria to become South Africa’s first black president.

1994: The state of Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murders of 33 young men and boys.
1996: Two Marine helicopters collide in the dark and crash in a swamp at Camp Lejeune, N.C., during a U.S.-British training exercise, killing 14 people.
2013: The IRS apologizes for what it acknowledges was “inappropriate” targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.
2013: U.S. government scientists say worldwide levels of carbon dioxide hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans.
2014: First Lady Michelle Obama, delivering the weekly presidential radio and Internet address in place of her husband, decries the kidnapping of scores of Nigerian schoolgirls by the group Boko Haram.

2014: Michael Sam is picked by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the NFL Draft, becoming the first openly gay player drafted by a pro football team.
2018: President Trump announces that he would meet in Singapore with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on June 12; the announcement comes hours after Trump hosts a welcome-home for three Americans who had been held by Kim’s government.

Bryan Robinson is a senior editor at Fox News Digital.

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