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Today in History ~ February 10
Events0060 - St. Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta, south of where Jonah met the whale
1098 - Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
1535 - 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1635 - Academie Francaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
1676 - Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster, Mass
1720 - Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England [H]
1774 - Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
1794 - Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
1824 - Simon Bolivar named President by the Congress of Peru
1840 - Queen Victoria Married Albert von Saksen-Coburg [H]
1846 - Beginning of Mormon march to west US
1855 - US citizenship laws amended to include all children of US parents born abroad
1861 - Jefferson Davis learns he has been selected president of the new Confederate States of America. [H]
1862 - Federal forces destroyed the Confederate "Mosquito" fleet at Elizabeth City, North Carolina
1863 - PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (NYC)
1878 - Peter Tchaikowsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres
1879 - 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
1890 - Around 11M acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians, opens for settlement
1897 - The slogan "All The News That's Fit To Print" first appeared on page one of The New York Times.
1906 - Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
1931 - New Delhi becomes capital of India
1933 - Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co, NYC)
1934 - 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1934 - Admiral Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
1935 - Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service with new electric locomotive
1940 - "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
1940 - Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1942 - Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
1945 - "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
1949 - Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
1951 - "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
1954 - Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1956 - Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA
1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
1960 - "Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 performances
1961 - Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
1962 - USSR swaps U2 pilot Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel [H]
1964 - 82 Australian sailors died when an aircraft carrier and a destroyer collided off New South Wales, Australia.
1964 - The press reported "millions of teenage boys are spending extra time in front of the mirror trying to make their hair look like Paul McCartney's...," after The Beatles appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" the night before.
1972 - BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
1981 - 8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
1984 - Americans and other foreigners were evacuated from Beirut following the withdrawal of U.S. Marines from Lebanon.
1987 - Surgeon General C. Everett Koop endorsed television advertising for condoms to help curb the spread of AIDS.
1988 - 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in SF strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
1991 - ANC gunmen ambushed an Inkatha Freedom Party motorcade outside Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, killing 17 and wounding 29.
1992 - An Indianapolis jury convicted former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson in the rape of a beauty pageant contestant.
1993 - President Clinton moved to make good on a campaign pledge to cut the government. He announced a 100,000-person reduction in the federal work force over the next three years.
1993 - A gang of more than 40 people ambushed two trucks in a mountainous region of Mexico, shooting to death at least 24 men in a drug-related family feud.
1996 - IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champ Gary Kasparov
1997 - O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages
1998 - Monica Lewinsky's mother began two days of testimony before a grand jury investigating allegations that President Clinton had an affair with the former White House intern.
1998 - After being vacant for more than three years, the office of surgeon general was filled when the Senate approved the nomination of Dr. David Satcher, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control.
1998 - Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
Birthdays Today
1609 - John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier
1670 - William Congreve, England, writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World)
1728 - Peter III Feodorovich, German/Russian czar of Russia (1761-62)
1775 - Charles Lamb, London England, critic/poet/essayist
1890 - Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)
1893 - Jimmy Durante (actor, comedian: "Good night Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are."; Ziegfeld Follies, The Man Who Came to Dinner, It Happened in Brooklyn, The Jimmy Durante Show)
1894 - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, (C) British PM (1957-63)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage, Three Penney Opera)
1898 - Dame Judith Anderson (actress: The Ten Commandments, Star Trek 3, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Man Called Horse)
1905 - Lon Chaney, Jr. (actor: The Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, The Mummy's Curse)
1914 - Larry Adler, hamonicist (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer)(composer: movie scores: A Cry from the Streets, Genevieve, Great Chase)
1919 - Allie Reynolds (baseball: NY Yankees pitcher: shares individual record with 3 others for season no-hitters [2 in 1951])
1922 - Neva Patterson (actress: An Affair to Remember, The Runaways)
1923 - Allie Sherman (football)
1923 - Cesare Siepi, Milan Italy, basso (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1924 - Bud (Norman) Poile (hockey)
1927 - Leontyne Price (soprano: Metropolitan Opera)
1930 - Robert Wagner (actor: Hart to Hart, The Mountain, The Towering Inferno, Titanic, It Takes a Thief, Pink Panther, Midway)
1940 - Roberta Flack (singer: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Feel Like Making Love, Killing Me Softly With His Song)
1943 - Ral Donner (singer: You Don't Know What You've Got, She's Everything; narrator and Presley's voice in film: This is Elvis)
1946 - Donovan [P Leech], Scotland, rocker (Mellow Yellow)
1949 - Joe Lavender (football: Washington Redskins CB: Super Bowl XVII)
1950 - Mark Spitz (swimmer: U.S. Olympic 9-time gold medal winner, the most gold medals won by an individual [seven in 1972 and 2 in 1968])
1952 - Mike Varty (football)
Famous deaths
1772 - Louis Tocque, French painter, dies at 75
1912 - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antisepsis), dies
1923 - Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77
1992 - Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70
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