February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining until the end of the year (325 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL HOME WARRANTY DAY
1763 – The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years War (in North America The French-Indian War) between France and England, with France surrendering Canada to Britain.
1855 – United States citizenship laws are amended; all children of US parents born abroad are now granted US citizenship.
1879 - Welsh journalist and explorer, Henry Morton Stanley, departs for the Congo in search of English missionary and explorer Dr. David Livingston.
1916 - In Britain during WWI , with the army running low on troops short, the volunteer method is overturned and replaced by military conscription.
1975 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees to a truce and ceasefire with the British government and the Northern Ireland Office; Seven "incident centres" are established in nationalist areas to monitor the ceasefire and the response of the security forces.
1990 – South African President F.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on February 11.
1996 – A bomb explodes in Docklands area of London, ending the 17-month ceasefire; James McArdle is eventually found guilty and jailed for 25 years.
2014 - Australian National University scientists discover the oldest known star at 13.6 billion years old.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1744 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (d. 1819)
1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836)
1883 – Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (d. 1959)
1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
1927 – Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
NATIONAL HOME WARRANTY DAY
1763 – The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years War (in North America The French-Indian War) between France and England, with France surrendering Canada to Britain.
1855 – United States citizenship laws are amended; all children of US parents born abroad are now granted US citizenship.
1879 - Welsh journalist and explorer, Henry Morton Stanley, departs for the Congo in search of English missionary and explorer Dr. David Livingston.
1916 - In Britain during WWI , with the army running low on troops short, the volunteer method is overturned and replaced by military conscription.
1918 – Then Russian Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Leon Trotsky, declares Russia is leaving the war and signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and the other Central Powers.
1942 – Bandleader, musician and writer, Captain Glenn Miller, is awarded first ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo". Miller later died when his plane crashed on December 15, 1944.
1962 – Francis Gary Powers, an American who was shot down over the Soviet Union while flying a CIA spy plane in 1960, is released by the Soviets in exchange for the U.S. release of a Russian spy. The exchange concluded one of the most dramatic episodes of the Cold War.
1971 – Ex-New York Yankee first baseman, Bill White, becomes the first African American baseball announcer (Yankees).
1975 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees to a truce and ceasefire with the British government and the Northern Ireland Office; Seven "incident centres" are established in nationalist areas to monitor the ceasefire and the response of the security forces.
1990 – South African President F.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on February 11.
1996 – A bomb explodes in Docklands area of London, ending the 17-month ceasefire; James McArdle is eventually found guilty and jailed for 25 years.
2014 - Australian National University scientists discover the oldest known star at 13.6 billion years old.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1744 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (d. 1819)
1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836)
1883 – Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (d. 1959)
1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
1927 – Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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