Tuesday, May 10, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

MAY 10
1994:Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress party is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president, signaling a new era of multiracial democracy in the former nation of apartheid.

1869: California Gov. Leland Stanford drives in a ceremonial golden spike to symbolize the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States, as the tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet at Promontory Summit in the Utah Territory.

1941: Rudolf Hess, deputy to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, parachutes into Renfrewshire, Scotland, hoping to discuss a peace proposal to end the war between Germany and Great Britain with the Duke of Hamilton. Hess will be imprisoned in England until the end of World War II.
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