This day in history - May 10

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1676 - Bacon's Rebellion began in Virginia. This first act of rebellion against British authority is now largely forgotten.

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1775 - Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys, jointly led by Col. Benedict Arnold, captured Fort Ticonderoga.

1863 - Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died after being accidentally shot by his own troops.

1865 - Union forces captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Georgia.

1869 - The construction of the first transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory, Utah.

1924 - J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI, a job he held for nearly half a century.

1940 - Germany invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned and was replaced by Winston Churchill.

1941 - The British House of Commons was destroyed by a German air raid.

1960 - The USS Triton completed the first circumnavigation of the globe under water.

- Jim