TODAY IS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2018

On this day in history:

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

1788 - Reverend Richard Johnson officiates at the first marriage ceremonies in the New South Wales colony. 1840 - Britain’s Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.

1846 - Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began their exodus to the west from Illinois.

1879 - Ned Kelly’s famous Jerilderie letter is penned. 1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged capture American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel being held by the US.

1964 - 82 men are killed as the HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Voyager collide off the New South Wales coast.

1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that black activist Nelson Mandela would be released the next day after 27 years in captivity. 1992 - Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, Miss Black American contestant.

1996 - IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. 1998 - A man became the first to be convicted of committing a hate crime in cyberspace. The college dropout had e-mailed threats to Asian students. 1999 - Avalanches killed at least 10 people when they roared down the French Alps 30 miles from Geneva.

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.

2007 - Then Illinois senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy for president in the 2008 elections, which he later goes on to win.

2009 - The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

2013 - Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.