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On This Day: May 10th
10 May 1775: Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia names George Washington Supreme Commander
10 May 1797: 1st US Navy ship, the "United States," is launched
10 May 1924: J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
10 May 1940: Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister
10 May 1941: Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess escapes to Britain to open secret negotiations with the Allies, parachuting into Scotland
10 May 1945: Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese
10 May 1960: John F. Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia
10 May 1969: US troops begin attack on Hill 937 - Hamburger Hill, Vietnam
10 May 1996: 2 US Marine helicopters collided during joint US & British war games
10 May 2005: A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, it malfunctions and does not detonate
10 May 2017: US President Donald Trump shares classified information about ISIS plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office
10 May 2018: China announces plans for the world's largest weather-control mechanism, rain-inducing machines for the Tibetan Plateau (area the size of Alaska)
https://www.onthisday.com/day/may/10