TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2018

On this day in history:

1503 - Christopher Columbus arrived in the Cayman Islands for the first time.

1676 - Bacon’s Rebellion, which pits frontiersmen against the government, began.

1768 - The imprisonment of the journalist John Wilkes as an outlaw provoked violence in London. Wilkes was returned to parliament as a member for Middlesex.

1773 - The English Parliament passed the Tea Act, which taxed all tea in the US colonies. 1774 - Louis XVI ascended the throne of France.

1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte won a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy.

1857 - The Seepoys of India revolted against the British Army.

1924 - J Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1933 - The Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.

1940 - Germany invaded Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. 1941 - England’s House of Commons was destroyed by a German air raid.

1941 - Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy, parachuted into Scotland on what he claimed was a peace mission. 1962 - Marvel Comics published the first issue of The Incredible Hulk”

1968 - Preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris. 1978 - Britain’s Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon announced they were divorcing after 18 years of marriage.

1994 - Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa’s first black president.

1997 - An earthquake in northeastern Iran killed at least 2,400 people.

1999 - The Cezanne painting Still Life With Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit sold for $60.5 million.

2001 - In Ghana, 121 people were killed in a stampede at a soccer game.

2012 - The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people and injuring 400.