{"id":25359,"date":"2016-02-10T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25359"},"modified":"2016-02-10T08:33:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:33:53","slug":"today-in-history-156","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25359","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Today in History: Wednesday, February\u00a0 10, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Feb. 10, 1949, Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” opened on Broadway. (Miller died on the same date in 2005 at age 89.)
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1763<\/td>\nFrance ceded Canada to England under the Treaty of Paris, which ended the French and Indian War.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1840<\/td>\nBritain’s Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1846<\/td>\nMembers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints \u2013 the Mormons \u2013 began an exodus west from Illinois.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1962<\/td>\nThe Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for a Soviet spy held by the United States.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1964<\/td>\nBob Dylan’s album “The Times They Are A-Changin”‘ was released.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1967<\/td>\nThe 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\nRon Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African-American to head a major U.S. political party.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nIraq agreed to allow U-2 surveillance flights over its territory, meeting a key demand by U.N. inspectors searching for banned weapons; President George W. Bush brushed aside Iraqi concessions as too little, too late.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nRapper-producer Kanye West’s debut CD, “The College Dropout,” was released.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nNorth Korea boasted publicly for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nSen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., kicked off his presidential campaign with a speech at the state house in Springfield, Ill.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nGen. David Petraeus took charge of U.S. forces in Iraq.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down or leave the country and instead handed his powers to his vice president.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Director Alexander Payne turns 55 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Robert Wagner<\/td>\nActor (“Hart to Hart”)<\/td>\n86<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roberta Flack<\/td>\nSinger<\/td>\n77<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jimmy Merchant<\/td>\nSinger (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers)<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Spitz<\/td>\nOlympic gold-medal swimmer<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert Iger<\/td>\nWalt Disney Co. president and CEO<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
George Stephanopoulos<\/td>\nBroadcast journalist (“This Week”)<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laura Dern<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Uzo Aduba<\/td>\nActress (“Orange is the New Black”)<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chloe Grace Moretz<\/td>\nActress (“Hugo”)<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actress Elizabeth Banks turns 42 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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