Sportscaster Pat Summerall is 79.

Singer Donovan is 63.

R&B singer Ron Banks (The Dramatics) is 58.

Rock singer Bono (U2) is 49.

Rapper Young MC is 42.

Race car driver Helio Castroneves is 34.

R&B singer Jason Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 29.

Singer Ashley Poole (Dream) is 24.

Actress Odette Yustman is 24.

On May 10, 1774, Louis XVI acceded to the throne of France.

In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Col. Benedict Arnold, captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.

In 1865, Union forces captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Irwinville, Ga.

In 1869, a golden spike was driven in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S.

In 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was given the job of FBI director.

In 1933, the Nazis staged public book burnings in Germany.

In 1940, during World War II, German forces began invading the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and France.