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 Great 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.
1942 - Glenn Miller received the first-ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
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.
1989 - Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African-American to lead a major U.S. political party.
1996 - IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov in the first game of their match.
2003 - Iraq agreed to allow U-2 surveillance flights over its territory, meeting a key demand by U.N. weapons inspectors searching for banned weapons; President George W. Bush brushed aside Iraqi concessions as too little, too late.
2005 - North Korea publicly proclaimed for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons.
2007 - Gen. David Petraeus took command of U.S. forces in Iraq.
Birthdays
21 - Chloe Grace Moretz (actress)
24 - Makenzie Vega (actress)
27 - Emma Roberts (actress)
27 - Samantha Hoopes (model)
29 - Noor Neelofa (actress)
30 - Jade Ramsey (actress)
30 - Nikita Ramsey (actress)
34 - Alex Gordon (baseball player)
36 - Emily Morris (actress)
36 - Justin Gatlin (track and field athlete)
37 - Stephanie Beatriz (actress)
37 - Holly Willoughby (TV host)
37 - Uzo Aduba (actress)
44 - Elizabeth Banks (actress)
51 - Laura Dern (actress)
88 - Robert Wagner (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 10
1920 - Major League Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with the ball.
1961 - The Los Angeles Chargers of the AFL moved to San Diego.
1968 - American figure skater Peggy Fleming, age 19, won America's only gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France.
1969 - LSU's Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94.
1975 - William "Judy" Johnson selected to American baseball 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 of the Detroit Red Wings became the sixth player in NHL history to score 700 career goals.
2006 - The Winter Olympic Games open in Turin, Italy.
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 Great 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.
1942 - Glenn Miller received the first-ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
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.
1989 - Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African-American to lead a major U.S. political party.
1996 - IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov in the first game of their match.
2003 - Iraq agreed to allow U-2 surveillance flights over its territory, meeting a key demand by U.N. weapons inspectors searching for banned weapons; President George W. Bush brushed aside Iraqi concessions as too little, too late.
2005 - North Korea publicly proclaimed for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons.
2007 - Gen. David Petraeus took command of U.S. forces in Iraq.
Birthdays
21 - Chloe Grace Moretz (actress)
24 - Makenzie Vega (actress)
27 - Emma Roberts (actress)
27 - Samantha Hoopes (model)
29 - Noor Neelofa (actress)
30 - Jade Ramsey (actress)
30 - Nikita Ramsey (actress)
34 - Alex Gordon (baseball player)
36 - Emily Morris (actress)
36 - Justin Gatlin (track and field athlete)
37 - Stephanie Beatriz (actress)
37 - Holly Willoughby (TV host)
37 - Uzo Aduba (actress)
44 - Elizabeth Banks (actress)
51 - Laura Dern (actress)
88 - Robert Wagner (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 10
1920 - Major League Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with the ball.
1961 - The Los Angeles Chargers of the AFL moved to San Diego.
1968 - American figure skater Peggy Fleming, age 19, won America's only gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France.
1969 - LSU's Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94.
1975 - William "Judy" Johnson selected to American baseball 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 of the Detroit Red Wings became the sixth player in NHL history to score 700 career goals.
2006 - The Winter Olympic Games open in Turin, Italy.
