TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – FEB 10
60 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1763 The Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War. France gives up all her territories in the New World except New Orleans and a few scattered islands.
1774 Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Cairo, Egypt, for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men.
1846 Led by religious leader Brigham Young, the first Mormons begin a long westward exodus from Nauvoo, Il., to Utah.
1855 US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1863 P.T. Barnum’s star midgets, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, are married.
1890 Around 11 million acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
1899 US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley; US gets Puerto Rico & Guam
1915 President Wilson blasts the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to deceive the Germans.
1940 Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1955 Bell Aircraft displays a fixed-wing vertical takeoff plane.
1960 Jack Paar, the host of The Tonight Show had walked off the set on this day, in protest of censorship. NBC had started taping the show, and had begun editing out any segment that it determined was inappropriate for “live” television.
1962 The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
1964 Bob Dylan’s album “The Times They Are A-Changin’” is released
1966 Protester David Miller is convicted of burning his draft card.
1967 The 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing presidential succession.
1979 The Metropolitan Museum announces the first major theft in its 110-year history, $150,000 Greek marble head.
1986 The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opens in Palermo, Italy.
1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a New Jersey court
1990 Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to become heavyweight boxing champion
1991 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
1996 Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a chess game against a reigning world champion
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