FEB 10TH
1763-Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all its North American territories east of the Mississippi to Great Britain.
1837-Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.
1840-Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
1942-Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
1962-The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
1967-The 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing presidential succession.
1996-IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in the first game of their match.
2005-Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller died.
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