10 MAY

Posted on Thursday 10 May 2007

1899: Fred Astaire is born [video: coat rack]

1924: J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Bureau of Investigation (which in 1935 expanded, becoming the FBI)

1933: The first mass public book burning takes place in Nazi Germany

1994: Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa’s first black president


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