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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48471)	5/11/2005 3:10:44 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

May 10 Neville Chamberlain replaced as British prime minister by Winston Churchill 1940: After losing the support of many Conservatives in the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned his office this day and was replaced by Winston Churchill, who would provide the unswerving and energetic leadership on which Britain would depend throughout World War II. The failure of Chamberlain's policy of “appeasement” toward Adolf Hitler's Germany, amply illustrated by the succession of invasions carried out by the German armed forces in 1939–40, contributed to his downfall. 1940: Germany invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands. 1869: The tracks of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific were joined at Promontory, Utah, to form the first transcontinental railway in the United States. 1865: Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, was captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia. 1857: The Indian Mutiny erupted in Meerut in reaction to the increased pace of Westernization in India and a military crackdown on Indian troops by their British officers. 1838: American actor John Wilkes Booth, who would assassinate Abraham Lincoln in 1865, was born near Bel Air, Maryland. 1818: American patriot Paul Revere died in Boston. 1775: Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution. Fred Astaire Fred Astaire, born this day in 1899 in Omaha, Nebraska, as Frederick Austerlitz, was an American dancer on the stage and in motion pictures. He was best known for the highly successful musical comedy films in which his partner was Ginger Rogers. He is regarded by many as the greatest popular-music dancer of all time. "To be in a picture with Fred Astaire was every dancing girl's dream." Ann Miller