1908<\/strong> – The first Mother’s Day observance took place during a church service in Grafton,\u00a0West Virginia.<\/p>\n 1924<\/strong> – J. Edgar Hoover was appointed the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n 1927<\/strong> – The Hotel Statler in Boston,\u00a0MA. became the first hotel to install radio headsets in each of its 1,300 rooms.<\/p>\n 1928<\/strong> – WGY-TV in Schenectady,\u00a0NY, began regular television programming.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong> – The Adler Planetarium opened to the public in Chicago,\u00a0IL.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – The Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – Germany invaded Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – England’s House of Commons was destroyed by a German air raid.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy, parachuted into Scotland on what he claimed was a peace mission.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0forces in the Philippines began to surrender to the Japanese.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0troops invaded Attu in the Aleutian Islands to expel the Japanese.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.S. Triton<\/i>\u00a0completed the first circumnavigation of the globe under water. The trip started on\u00a0February 16.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – Marvel Comics published the first issue of “The Incredible Hulk.”<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – Preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – The National and American Football Leagues announced their plans to merge for the 1970-71 season.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – Britain’s Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon announced they were divorcing after 18 years of marriage.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – Elliott Gould made his dramatic television debut after 30 movies in 17 years. He starred in “The Rules of Marriage” on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Navy Lt. Commander Donnie Cochran became the first black pilot to fly with the Blue Angels team.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa\u2019s first black president.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – An earthquake in northeastern Iran killed at least 2,400 people.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – China broke off talks on human rights with the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0in response to NATO’s accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – The Cezanne painting “Still Life With Curtain, Pitcher, and Bowl of Fruit” sold for 60.5 million.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – 11,000 residents were evacuated in Los Alamos,\u00a0NM, due to a fire that was blown into a canyon. The fire had been deliberately set to clear brush.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – Boeing Co. announced that it would be moving its headquarters to Chicago,\u00a0IL.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – In Ghana, 121 people were killed in a stampede at a soccer game.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Robert Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole. Hanssen, an FBI agent, had sold U.S. secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Taiwan test fired a locally made Sky Bow II surface-to-air missile for the first time. They also fired three U.S.-made Hawk missiles.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Dr. Pepper announced that it would be introducing a new flavor, Red Fusion, for the first time in 117 years.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong> – It was announced that Microsoft had closed a deal to purchase the internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong> – In New York, NY, crane operators hoisted the final pieces of the spire atop One World Trade Center (formerly called the Freedom Tower).<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> – NASA announced that it’s Kepler mission had verified 1,284 new planets. This was the single largest finding of planets to date.<\/p>\n History of 10 May 1908 – The first Mother’s Day observance took place during a church service in Grafton,\u00a0West Virginia. 1924 – J. 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