Wednesday, February 10th
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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)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On February 10, 1872, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1872. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
On this date in:
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
(Go to obit.)
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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