1941During World War II, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy in Nazi Germany, parachute into Scotland. Hess claims he is on a peace mission. But he is treated as a prisoner of war and spends the rest of his life behind bars. 1994Nelson Mandela takes the oath of office to become South Africa’s first black president after the end of apartheid.

Also that same year, in Illinois, serial killer John Wayne Gacy is executed by lethal injection for murdering 33 young men and boys during the 1970s.

And 1960Rock musician Bono, front man of the group U2 and an anti-poverty activist, is born in Dublin, Ireland. Today in History, May 10th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.