MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · May 10
THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 10
May 10 in history
1940
Germany strikes west through the Low Countries — and, the same evening, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister. One day, two hinges.
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1994 — Pretoria — the inauguration
10 May 1994 — Nelson Mandela is sworn in at the Union Buildings as South Africa’s first democratically elected president, jets of the old regime dipping their wings overhead. The map of a free Africa is complete.
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