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.