TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Thursday, May 10, the 130th day of 2018. There are 235 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlights in History:

On May 10, 1968, the “Night of the Barricades” began in Paris’ Latin Quarter as tens of thousands of student protesters erected obstacles against riot police; in the pre-dawn hours of May 11, the police moved in, resulting in violent clashes that left hundreds of people injured. Preliminary peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam began in the French capital.

On this date:

■ In 1611, Sir Thomas Dale arrived in the Virginia Colony, where, as deputy governor, he instituted harsh measures to restore order.

■ In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Col. Benedict Arnold, captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, New York.

■ In 1818, American patriot Paul Revere, 83, died in Boston.

■ In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union forces in Irwinville, Georgia.

■ In 1869, a golden spike was driven in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.

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

■ In 1933, the Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.

■ In 1940, during World War II, German forces began invading the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and France. The same day, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government.

■ In 1960, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton completed its submerged navigation of the globe.

■ In 1978, Buckingham Palace announced that Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon were divorcing after 18 years of marriage.

■ In 1984, the International Court of Justice said the United States should halt any actions to blockade Nicaragua’s ports (the U.S. had already said it would not recognize World Court jurisdiction on this issue).

■ In 1994, Nelson Mandela took the oath of office in Pretoria to become South Africa’s first black president. The state of Illinois executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy, 52, for the murders of 33 young men and boys.

Today’s Birthdays: Author Barbara Taylor Bradford is

85. Rhythm-and-blues singer Henry Fambrough (The Spinners) is 80. Actor David Clennon is 75. Writer-producerdirector Jim Abrahams is 74. Singer Donovan is 72. Former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., is

60.

Thought for Today: “Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.”—Anna Freud, Austrian-born psychoanalyst (1895-1982).