On this day …
February 10, 2015
- In 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, with France ceding Quebec to Great Britain.
- In 1840, Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
- In 1861, Jefferson Davis was notified by telegraph that he had been chosen provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
- In 1870, the YWCA was founded in New York City.
- In 1923, Texas Tech University was founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock.
- In 1942, the first gold record was presented to Glenn Miller for “Chattanooga Choo Choo.”
- In 1962, captured American pilot Francis Gary Powers was exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- In 1989, Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee to become the first African American to lead a major American political party.
- In 1996, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a chess match for the first time.
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