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.

ON THIS DATE

1841

Upper Canada and Lower Canada were proclaimed united under an Act of Union passed by the British Parliament.

1949

Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” opened at Broadway’s Morosco Theater with Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman.

1968

U.S. figure skater Peggy Fleming, 19, won America’s only gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, in the ladies’ singles event.

2005

Playwright Arthur Miller died in Roxbury, Conn., at age 89 on the 56th anniversary of the Broadway opening of “Death of a Salesman.”