National Parks Yosemite 1966
El Capitan, granite outcrop which rises 3,200 feet from the 4,000-foot-high valley floor, dominates the lower end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park in eastern California, May 10, 1966. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett)
John Wayne Gacy Mass Murder Demonstration
Guards keep a watchful eye on a small group of demonstrators on hand at the Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet, Illinois on Monday, May 9, 1994. John Wayne Gacy scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at the Stateville facility shortly after Tuesday. (AP Photo. Robert Kozloff
England Rolling Stones in Court
Onlookers crowd round Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in Chichester, Sussex, England on May 10, 1967. Jagger and Richards together with Mayfair, London, Pop Art Gallery owner Robert Fraser elected to be tried by a jury on drug charges, when they appeared at the Magistrates Court there to answer summonses. (AP Photo)
1976 Bicentennial Reenactment
The Commander-In-Chief’s Guard fires a volley while people in period costumes peer out the windows of Fort Ticonderoga, New York on May 10, 1975. The guard, like the thousands of spectators, who came to see the reenactment of America’s first victory in the Revolution, littered the grounds when they ripped open the small packets of black powder poured it into the gun, and threw the bags on the ground, just as their forefathers did 200 years ago. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)
Simon And Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel, left, hams it up as Paul Simon strums his guitar at concert at Tokyo's Korakuen baseball park on Monday, May 10, 1982, kicking off their three-night stand before Japanese fans. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)
USS TICONDEROGA
The huge aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga slips under the Delaware Memorial Bridge with its crew at attention and its planes on deck for a aircraft show in 1955. In publish reports, a A-4 Skyhawk fell off the USS Ticonderoga carrying a nuclear bomb, about 80 miles from an island of the Okinawa chain in 1965. Officals of the Japanese government have asked the United States to explain the incident, May 10, 1989. (AP Photo)
Islamic Celebration of Bayram
Sarajevans Muslims pray on the first day of the Islamic festival of "Byrum" Wednesday, May 10, 1995 at Sarajevo's main Mosque surrounded by metal supports while the is building under repair because of shelling. This is the fourth ?Byrum? that Sarajevans have celebrated under siege. (AP Photo/Enric F. Marti)
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On May 10, 1940: During World War II, German forces began invading the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and France. The same day, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government.