February 10
1763 - The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian War. As a result, France ceded Canada and all its North American territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
1837 - Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.
1840 - Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
1846 - Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – the Mormons – began an exodus west from Illinois.
1936 - Nazi Germany’s Reichstag passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority, exempt from any legal review.
1942 - Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
1959 - A major tornado tore through the St. Louis area, killing 21 people and causing heavy damage.
1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, establishing presidential succession and dealing with presidential disability.
1989 - Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African-American to head a major U.S. political party.
1996 - IBM's computer "Deep Blue" beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the first game of their match.
1997 - A civil jury heaped $25 million in punitive damages on O.J. Simpson for the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, on top of $8.5 million in compensatory damages awarded earlier.
2003 - Iraq agreed to allow U-2 surveillance flights over its territory, meeting a key demand by U.N. inspectors searching for banned weapons; President George W. Bush brushed aside Iraqi concessions as too little, too late.
2005 - North Korea boasted publicly for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons.
2005 - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller died.
2005 - Britain’s Prince Charles announced he would marry his divorced lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, in April.
2007 - Demcoratic Sen. Barack Obama, kicked off his presidential campaign with a speech at the state house in Springfield, Illinois.
2007 - Gen. David Petraeus took command of U.S. forces in Iraq.
2011 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down or leave the country and instead handed his powers to his vice president.
2015 - NBC announced it was suspending Brian Williams as “Nightly News” anchor and managing editor for six months without pay for misleading the public about his experiences covering the Iraq War.
2016 - Senate Democrats and Republicans united behind tougher sanctions on North Korea for violating international law by pursuing nuclear weapons.
2020 - U.S. health officials confirmed the first case of the novel coronavirus among the hundreds of people who’d been evacuated from China to military bases in the United States; it was among the 13 confirmed cases in the U.S. Britain declared the new coronavirus a “serious and imminent threat to public health” and said people with the virus could now be forcibly quarantined.
2020 - U.S. prosecutors charged four members of the Chinese military with breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of tens of millions of Americans.
Birthdays
21 - Yara Shahidi (actress)
24 - Chloe Grace Moretz (actress)
27 - Makenzie Vega (actress)
30 - Emma Roberts (actress)
33 - Jade Ramsey (actress)
39 - Eric Dill (singer)
40 - Barry Sloane (actor)
40 - Max Brown (actor)
40 - Stephanie Beatriz (actress)
40 - Holly Willoughby (TV host)
43 - Julia Pace Mitchell (actress)
47 - Elizabeth Banks (actress)
49 - Jason Olive (actor)
54 - Laura Dern (actress)
57 - Glenn Beck (TV/radio host)
60 - George Stephanopoulos (TV host)
60 - Alexander Payne (director)
61 - Lionel Cartwright (country singer)
65 - Kathleen Beller (actress)
66 - Greg Norman (golfer)
71 - Mark Spitz (swimmer)
81 - Jimmy Merchant (singer)
84 - Roberta Flack (singer)
91 - Robert Wagner (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 10
1920 - Major league baseball representatives outlawed pitches that involved tampering with the ball.
1961 - The AFL's Los Angeles Chargers moved to San Diego.
1969 - LSU's Pete Maravich scores 66 points in a 101-94 loss to Tulane.
1989 - KC Jones and Lenny Wilkens are elected to the NBA Hall of Fame.
1989 - In order to gain deregulation, the World Wrestling Federation admits in a New Jersey court that professional wrestling is an exhibition and not a sport.
1992 - Boxer Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant. (Tyson served three years in prison.)
2003 - Brett Hull (Detroit Red Wings) became the 6th player in NHL history to score at least 700 career goals.
2005 - The NHL and the players' association broke off talks after two days. The previous day commissioner Gary Bettman had said that a deal would need to be ready by the weekend to save the season.
2019 - The Alliance of American Football gets underway with the first game of the eight-team league featuring the Orlando Apollos defeating the Atlanta Legends 40-6.
1763 - The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian War. As a result, France ceded Canada and all its North American territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
1837 - Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.
1840 - Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
1846 - Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – the Mormons – began an exodus west from Illinois.
1936 - Nazi Germany’s Reichstag passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority, exempt from any legal review.
1942 - Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
1959 - A major tornado tore through the St. Louis area, killing 21 people and causing heavy damage.
1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, establishing presidential succession and dealing with presidential disability.
1989 - Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African-American to head a major U.S. political party.
1996 - IBM's computer "Deep Blue" beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the first game of their match.
1997 - A civil jury heaped $25 million in punitive damages on O.J. Simpson for the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, on top of $8.5 million in compensatory damages awarded earlier.
2003 - Iraq agreed to allow U-2 surveillance flights over its territory, meeting a key demand by U.N. inspectors searching for banned weapons; President George W. Bush brushed aside Iraqi concessions as too little, too late.
2005 - North Korea boasted publicly for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons.
2005 - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller died.
2005 - Britain’s Prince Charles announced he would marry his divorced lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, in April.
2007 - Demcoratic Sen. Barack Obama, kicked off his presidential campaign with a speech at the state house in Springfield, Illinois.
2007 - Gen. David Petraeus took command of U.S. forces in Iraq.
2011 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down or leave the country and instead handed his powers to his vice president.
2015 - NBC announced it was suspending Brian Williams as “Nightly News” anchor and managing editor for six months without pay for misleading the public about his experiences covering the Iraq War.
2016 - Senate Democrats and Republicans united behind tougher sanctions on North Korea for violating international law by pursuing nuclear weapons.
2020 - U.S. health officials confirmed the first case of the novel coronavirus among the hundreds of people who’d been evacuated from China to military bases in the United States; it was among the 13 confirmed cases in the U.S. Britain declared the new coronavirus a “serious and imminent threat to public health” and said people with the virus could now be forcibly quarantined.
2020 - U.S. prosecutors charged four members of the Chinese military with breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of tens of millions of Americans.
Birthdays
21 - Yara Shahidi (actress)
24 - Chloe Grace Moretz (actress)
27 - Makenzie Vega (actress)
30 - Emma Roberts (actress)
33 - Jade Ramsey (actress)
39 - Eric Dill (singer)
40 - Barry Sloane (actor)
40 - Max Brown (actor)
40 - Stephanie Beatriz (actress)
40 - Holly Willoughby (TV host)
43 - Julia Pace Mitchell (actress)
47 - Elizabeth Banks (actress)
49 - Jason Olive (actor)
54 - Laura Dern (actress)
57 - Glenn Beck (TV/radio host)
60 - George Stephanopoulos (TV host)
60 - Alexander Payne (director)
61 - Lionel Cartwright (country singer)
65 - Kathleen Beller (actress)
66 - Greg Norman (golfer)
71 - Mark Spitz (swimmer)
81 - Jimmy Merchant (singer)
84 - Roberta Flack (singer)
91 - Robert Wagner (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 10
1920 - Major league baseball representatives outlawed pitches that involved tampering with the ball.
1961 - The AFL's Los Angeles Chargers moved to San Diego.
1969 - LSU's Pete Maravich scores 66 points in a 101-94 loss to Tulane.
1989 - KC Jones and Lenny Wilkens are elected to the NBA Hall of Fame.
1989 - In order to gain deregulation, the World Wrestling Federation admits in a New Jersey court that professional wrestling is an exhibition and not a sport.
1992 - Boxer Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant. (Tyson served three years in prison.)
2003 - Brett Hull (Detroit Red Wings) became the 6th player in NHL history to score at least 700 career goals.
2005 - The NHL and the players' association broke off talks after two days. The previous day commissioner Gary Bettman had said that a deal would need to be ready by the weekend to save the season.
2019 - The Alliance of American Football gets underway with the first game of the eight-team league featuring the Orlando Apollos defeating the Atlanta Legends 40-6.