TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS FRIDAY, FEB. 10, the 41st day of 2023. There are 324 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
In 1763, Britain, Spain and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War in North America).
In 1840, Britain’s Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
In 1936, Nazi Germany’s Reichstag passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority, exempt from any legal review.
In 1967, the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, was ratified as Minnesota and Nevada adopted it.
In 1989, Ron Brown was elected the first Black chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
In 1992, boxer Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant. (Tyson served three years in prison.) “Roots” author Alex Haley died in Seattle at age 70.
In 2005, North Korea boasted publicly for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons.
IIn 2020, U.S. health officials confirmed the first case of the coronavirus among the hundreds of people who’d been evacuated from China to military bases in the United States; it was among the 13 confirmed cases in the U.S. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Robert Wagner is 93. Singer Roberta Flack is 86. Olympic gold-medal swimmer Mark Spitz is 73. Walt Disney Co. executive Robert Iger, and rock musician and composer Cory Lerios (Pablo Cruise) are 72. Movie director Alexander Payne and ABC News correspondent George Stephanopoulos are 62. Political commentator Glenn Beck is 59. Actor Laura Dern and writer-producer-director Vince Gilligan (TV: “Breaking Bad”) are 56. Country singer Dude Mowrey and actor Jason Olive are 51. Actor Elizabeth Banks is 49. Actors Uzo Aduba, Stephanie Beatriz, Max Brown and Barry Sloane are 42. Rock singer Eric Dill is 41. Actor Trevante Rhodes is 33. Actor Emma Roberts is 32.