February 10
1763 - The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the French and Indian War; as a result, France ceded Canada and all of its North American territories east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain.
1840 - Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
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 U.S. Constitution was ratified, dealing with presidential disability and succession.
1981 - Eight people were killed when a fire set by a busboy broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino.
1996 - IBM supercomputer, 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.)
2005 - Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller died.
2005 - North Korea boasted publicly for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons.
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. Britain declared the new coronavirus a “serious and imminent threat to public health” and said people with the virus could now be forcibly quarantined.
2022 - The U.S. Labor Department revealed that inflation over the past year had soared at its highest rate in forty years.
Birthdays
23 - Yara Shahidi (actress)
26 - Chloe Grace Moretz (actress)
29 - Makenzie Vega (actress)
32 - Emma Roberts (actress)
33 - Trevante Rhodes (actor)
35 - Jade Ramsey (actress)
41 - Emily Morris (actress)
42 - Barry Sloane (actor)
42 - Max Brown (actor)
42 - Stephanie Beatriz (actress)
42 - Holly Willoughby (TV host)
45 - Julia Pace Mitchell (actress)
49 - Elizabeth Banks (actress)
51 - Jason Olive (actor)
56 - Laura Dern (actress)
59 - Glenn Beck (TV/radio host)
62 - George Stephanopoulos (news anchor)
62 - Alexander Payne (director)
63 - Lionel Cartwright (singer)
67 - Kathleen Beller (actress)
68 - Greg Norman (golfer)
73 - Mark Spitz (swimmer)
83 - Jimmy Merchant (singer)
86 - Roberta Flack (singer)
93 - 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 American Football League's Los Angeles Chargers franchise was transferred to San Diego.
1969 - Pete Maravich of LSU scores 66 points in a game versus Tulane.
1989 - KC Jones and Lenny Wilkens are elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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.
2013 - Joe Paterno’s family released its response to Penn State’s report on the Jerry Sandusky scandal, attacking Louis Freeh’s conclusion that the coach hid sex abuse allegations against his longtime assistant.
2019 - The eight centrally owned and operated teams of the Alliance of American Football gets underway; the Orlando Apollos defeated the Atlanta Legends 40-6 in the inaugural game.
1763 - The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the French and Indian War; as a result, France ceded Canada and all of its North American territories east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain.
1840 - Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
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 U.S. Constitution was ratified, dealing with presidential disability and succession.
1981 - Eight people were killed when a fire set by a busboy broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino.
1996 - IBM supercomputer, 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.)
2005 - Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller died.
2005 - North Korea boasted publicly for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons.
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. Britain declared the new coronavirus a “serious and imminent threat to public health” and said people with the virus could now be forcibly quarantined.
2022 - The U.S. Labor Department revealed that inflation over the past year had soared at its highest rate in forty years.
Birthdays
23 - Yara Shahidi (actress)
26 - Chloe Grace Moretz (actress)
29 - Makenzie Vega (actress)
32 - Emma Roberts (actress)
33 - Trevante Rhodes (actor)
35 - Jade Ramsey (actress)
41 - Emily Morris (actress)
42 - Barry Sloane (actor)
42 - Max Brown (actor)
42 - Stephanie Beatriz (actress)
42 - Holly Willoughby (TV host)
45 - Julia Pace Mitchell (actress)
49 - Elizabeth Banks (actress)
51 - Jason Olive (actor)
56 - Laura Dern (actress)
59 - Glenn Beck (TV/radio host)
62 - George Stephanopoulos (news anchor)
62 - Alexander Payne (director)
63 - Lionel Cartwright (singer)
67 - Kathleen Beller (actress)
68 - Greg Norman (golfer)
73 - Mark Spitz (swimmer)
83 - Jimmy Merchant (singer)
86 - Roberta Flack (singer)
93 - 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 American Football League's Los Angeles Chargers franchise was transferred to San Diego.
1969 - Pete Maravich of LSU scores 66 points in a game versus Tulane.
1989 - KC Jones and Lenny Wilkens are elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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.
2013 - Joe Paterno’s family released its response to Penn State’s report on the Jerry Sandusky scandal, attacking Louis Freeh’s conclusion that the coach hid sex abuse allegations against his longtime assistant.
2019 - The eight centrally owned and operated teams of the Alliance of American Football gets underway; the Orlando Apollos defeated the Atlanta Legends 40-6 in the inaugural game.
