February 10
1763 - The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian War; France ceded Canada and all of its North American territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
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.
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 who was being held by the United States.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, was ratified was Minnesota and Nevada adopted it.
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 computer "Deep Blue" defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the first game of their match. (Kasparov ended up winning the match, 4 games to 2; he was defeated by Deep Blue in a rematch the following year.)
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.
2007 - Gen. David Petraeus took charge 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.
2012 - President Barack Obama, under fierce election-year fire, abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations had to pay for birth control for workers, demanding that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.
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.
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.
2021 - At the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Democrats presented security footage, social media videos, police radio calls and Trump’s own Twitter posts to argue that he stoked the flames of violence, incited the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and failed to act quickly to send help or call his supporters off.
Birthdays
22 - Yara Shahidi (actress)
25 - Chloe Grace Moretz (actress)
28 - Makenzie Vega (actress)
31 - Emma Roberts (actress)
34 - Jade Ramsey (actress)
41 - Barry Sloane (actor)
41 - Max Brown (actor)
41 - Emily Bustamante (reality star)
41 - Stephanie Beatriz (actress)
41 - Holly Willoughby (TV host)
44 - Julia Pace Mitchell (actress)
48 - Elizabeth Banks (actress)
50 - Jason Olive (actor)
55 - Laura Dern (actress)
58 - Glenn Beck (radio/TV host)
61 - George Stephanopoulos (news anchor)
61 - Alexander Payne (director)
66 - Kathleen Beller (actress)
67 - Greg Norman (golfer)
72 - Mark Spitz (swimmer)
82 - Jimmy Merchant (singer)
85 - Roberta Flack (singer)
92 - 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 relocated to San Diego.
1969 - Pete Maravich of LSU scores 66 points in a 101-94 loss to Tulane.
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.
2019 - The Alliance of American Football debuts, with the inaugural game seeing the Orlando Apollos defeating the Atlanta Legends, 40-6.
1763 - The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian War; France ceded Canada and all of its North American territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
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.
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 who was being held by the United States.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, was ratified was Minnesota and Nevada adopted it.
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 computer "Deep Blue" defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the first game of their match. (Kasparov ended up winning the match, 4 games to 2; he was defeated by Deep Blue in a rematch the following year.)
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.
2007 - Gen. David Petraeus took charge 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.
2012 - President Barack Obama, under fierce election-year fire, abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations had to pay for birth control for workers, demanding that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.
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.
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.
2021 - At the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Democrats presented security footage, social media videos, police radio calls and Trump’s own Twitter posts to argue that he stoked the flames of violence, incited the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and failed to act quickly to send help or call his supporters off.
Birthdays
22 - Yara Shahidi (actress)
25 - Chloe Grace Moretz (actress)
28 - Makenzie Vega (actress)
31 - Emma Roberts (actress)
34 - Jade Ramsey (actress)
41 - Barry Sloane (actor)
41 - Max Brown (actor)
41 - Emily Bustamante (reality star)
41 - Stephanie Beatriz (actress)
41 - Holly Willoughby (TV host)
44 - Julia Pace Mitchell (actress)
48 - Elizabeth Banks (actress)
50 - Jason Olive (actor)
55 - Laura Dern (actress)
58 - Glenn Beck (radio/TV host)
61 - George Stephanopoulos (news anchor)
61 - Alexander Payne (director)
66 - Kathleen Beller (actress)
67 - Greg Norman (golfer)
72 - Mark Spitz (swimmer)
82 - Jimmy Merchant (singer)
85 - Roberta Flack (singer)
92 - 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 relocated to San Diego.
1969 - Pete Maravich of LSU scores 66 points in a 101-94 loss to Tulane.
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.
2019 - The Alliance of American Football debuts, with the inaugural game seeing the Orlando Apollos defeating the Atlanta Legends, 40-6.
