TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
Feb. 10, 1962
The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
ALSO ON THIS DATE
1840
Britain’s Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
1841
Upper Canada and Lower Canada were proclaimed united under an Act of Union passed by the British Parliament.
1863
Showman P.T. Barnum staged the wedding of General Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren _ both little persons _ in New York City.
1936
Nazi Germany’s Reichstag passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority, exempt from any legal review.