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« on: February 10, 2010, 07:07:23 am »

Wednesday, February 10th
The 041st day of 2010.
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Today's Highlights in History

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   On Feb. 10, 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States. (Go to article.)

On Feb. 10, 1890, Boris Pasternak, the Russian Nobel Prize-winning novelist and poet, was born. Following his death on May 30, 1960, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
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   On February 10, 1872, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1872. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
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1763    France ceded Canada to England under the Treaty of Paris, which ended the French and Indian War.

1840    Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.

1846    Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - the Mormons - began an exodus west from Illinois.

1949    Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" opened on Broadway. (Miller died on the same date in 2005 at age 89.)

1964    Bob Dylan's album "The Times They Are A-Changin"' was released.

1967    The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect.

1968    Peggy Fleming of the United States won the gold medal in women's figure skating at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France.

1989    Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first black to head a major U.S. political party.

1992    Boxer Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping a Miss Black America contestant.

2003    Iraq agreed to allow U-2 surveillance flights over its territory, meeting a key demand by U.N. inspectors searching for banned weapons; President George W. Bush brushed aside Iraqi concessions as too little, too late.

2004    Rapper-producer Kanye West's debut CD, "The College Dropout," was released.

2005    North Korea boasted publicly for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons.

2007    Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., kicked off his presidential campaign with a speech at the state house in Springfield, Ill.

2007    Gen. David Petraeus took charge of U.S. forces in Iraq.

Current Birthdays

George Stephanopoulos turns 49 years old today.

AP Photo/Peter Kramer Broadcast journalist George Stephanopoulos ("Good Morning America") turns 49 years old today.


80    Robert Wagner
Actor ("Hart to Hart")

71    Roberta Flack
Singer

70    Jimmy Merchant
Singer (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers)

60    Mark Spitz
Olympic gold-medal swimmer

59    Robert Iger
Walt Disney Co. president and CEO

49    Alexander Payne
Director ("Sideways")

43    Laura Dern
Actress

36    Elizabeth Banks
Actress

36    Ty Law
Football player

34    Lance Berkman
Baseball player

19    Emma Roberts
Actress ("Nancy Drew")

Historic Birthdays

Boris Pasternak

2/10/1890 - 5/30/1960
Russian Nobel Prize-winning novelist/poet
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64    Aaron Hill
2/10/1685 - 2/8/1750
English poet/dramatist/essayist

72    Andre-Ernest Gretry
2/10/1741 - 9/24/1813
French operatic composer

59    Charles Lamb
2/10/1775 - 12/27/1834
English essayist/critic

80    Harrison Gray Otis
2/10/1837 - 7/30/1917
American newspaper publisher-Los Angeles Times

75    William Allen White
2/10/1868 - 1/29/1944
American journalist/writer

86    Jimmy Durante
2/10/1893 - 1/29/1980
American comedian/entertainer

92    Harold Macmillan
2/10/1894 - 12/29/1986
English politician/prime minister

93    Dame Judith Anderson
2/10/1898 - 1/3/1992
Australian-bn. American stage and film actress

58    Bertolt Brecht
2/10/1898 - 8/14/1956
German poet/playwright

91    Stella Adler
2/10/1901 - 12/21/1992
American actress/teacher


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