TODAY HISTORY LESSON: FEBRUARY 10
0060 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1258 Hulagu, a Mongol leader, seizes Baghdad, bringing an end to the Abbasid caliphate.
1620 Supporters of Marie de Medici, the queen mother, who has been exiled to Blois, are defeated by the king’s troops at Ponts de Ce, France.
1635 Académie Française is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
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
1814 Napoleon personally directs lightning strikes against enemy columns advancing toward Paris, beginning with a victory over the Russians at Champaubert.
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
1870 YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) is founded (New York NY)
1904 Russia and Japan declare war on each other.
1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design
1933 The singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York City.
1940 Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1962 The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
1966 Protester David Miller is convicted of burning his draft card.
1967 The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment required the appointment of a vice-president when that office became vacant and instituted new measures in the event of presidential disability.
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 NJ court
1990 South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that black activist Nelson Mandela would be released the next day after 27 years in captivity.
1996 IBM’s computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in the first game of their match.
1998 A man became the first to be convicted of committing a hate crime in cyberspace. The college dropout had e-mailed threats to Asian students.
2005 North Korea publicly announced for the first time that it had nuclear arms. The country also rejected attempts to restart disarmament talks in the near future saying that it needed the weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
2009 Two satellites collide in space. Both the U.S. satellite “Iridium 33” and the Russian “Kosmos 2251” were destroyed in the accident.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
