历史上的今天-Today in History 2016-05-13

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May 10th, 1869, at Promontory¹, Utah, a golden spike² is driven into the ground, completing the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.

 

 

1933, months after taking power in Germany, the Nazis⁴ stage massive public burnings of books considered to have un-Germanidea. 

 

 

1941, during the World War Ⅱ, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’sdeputy, a Nazi³ Germany parachutes into Scotland has claimed he’s on a peace mission. But he is xx as a prisoner of war and spends the rest of his life behind bars. 

 

 

1994,Nelson Mandela takes the oath of office to become South Africa’s first black president after the end of apartheid. 

 

 

Also that same year, Illinois’ serial⁵ killer⁶ John Wayne Gacy is executed by lethal⁷ injection for murdering 33 young men and boys during the 1970s.

 

 

And 1960, rock musician Bono, front man of the group U2 and an anti-poverty activist⁸, is born in Dublin, Ireland.

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