History for February 10

History for February 10 - On-This-Day.com:
Boris Pasternak 1890, Jimmy Durante 1893, Lon Chaney, Jr. 1905


Robert Wagner 1930 - Actor ("Hart to Hart"), Roberta Flack 1939 - Singer, Mark Spitz 1950 - Olympic gold-medal swimmer


1763 - The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. In the treaty France ceded Canada to England.


1863 - In New York City, two of the world’s most famous midgets, General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren were married.


1863 - The fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane.


1897 - "The New York Times" began printing "All the news that's fit to print" on their front page.


1949 - "Death of a Salesman" opened at the Morocco Theatre in New York City.


1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged capture American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel being held by the U.S.


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.


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.