Today is Saturday, February tenth, the forty first day of 2024. There are 325 days left this yr.
Today’s historical past highlights:
On February 10, 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov misplaced the primary recreation of a match towards an IBM pc known as “Deep Blue” in Philadelphia. (Kasparov in the end received 4 video games to 2, however misplaced to Deep Blue within the rematch the next yr.)
This date:
In 1763, Britain, Spain, and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years’ War (additionally recognized in North America because the French and Indian War).
In 1840, Queen Victoria of England married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
In 1959, a large twister struck the St. Louis space, killing 21 individuals and inflicting in depth injury.
In 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, who had been captured by the United States.
In 1967, the twenty fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which offers with presidential incapacity and succession, was adopted and ratified by Minnesota and Nevada.
In 1981, a busboy began a fireplace on the Hilton Hotel Casino in Las Vegas that killed eight individuals.
In 1989, Ron Brown was elected the primary black Democratic National Committee chairman.
In 1992, boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of raping Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington in Indianapolis. (Tyson served three years in jail.)
In 2005, North Korea publicly boasted for the primary time that it had nuclear weapons.
At the 2013 Grammy Awards, she received the tune of the yr award for Fun. “We Are Young.” Gotye’s “Somebody I Used to Know” was named report of the yr.
In 2015, NBC introduced that it had suspended Brian Williams from his position as Nightly News anchor and managing editor for six months with out pay for deceptive the general public about his expertise masking the Iraq War.
In 2020, U.S. well being officers confirmed the primary case of the novel coronavirus amongst tons of of people that had been evacuated from China to a U.S. army base. This is amongst 13 confirmed circumstances within the United States, and the United Kingdom has declared the coronavirus a “severe and imminent menace to public well being” and people contaminated with the virus will now be compelled into obligatory isolation. He mentioned that there’s a chance that
In 2021, Larry Flynt, who turned the sleazy Hustler journal into an empire whereas preventing quite a few First Amendment authorized battles, died in Los Angeles on the age of 78.
Today’s birthdays: opera singer Leontyne Price 97 years outdated, actor Robert Wagner 94 years outdated, singer Roberta Flack 87 years outdated, singer Jimmy Merchant (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) 84 years outdated, rock musician Bob Spalding (The Ventures) is 77 years outdated, Olympic gold medal swimmer Mark Spitz is 74 years outdated, Walt Disney govt Robert Iger is 73 years outdated, rock musician and composer Corey Lelios (Pablo Cruz) is 73 years outdated, World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman is 69 years outdated, actor Kathleen Beller is 68 years outdated, and nation singer Lionel Cartwright is 68 years outdated. 64. Film director Alexander Payne is 63 years outdated. ABC News correspondent George Stephanopoulos is 63 years outdated. Political commentator Glenn Beck is 60 years outdated. Actor Laura Dern is 57 years outdated. Screenwriter/producer/director Vince Gilligan (TV’s “Breaking Bad”) is 57 years outdated. Country singer. Dude Morley is 52 years outdated. Actor Jason Olive is 52 years outdated. Actor Elizabeth Banks is 50 years outdated. Actor Julia Pace Mitchell is 46 years outdated. Reggaeton singer Don Omar is 46 years outdated. Actor Uzo Aduba is 43 years outdated. Actor Stephanie Beatriz is 43 years outdated. Actor Max Brown is 43 years outdated. Barry Sloan is 43 years outdated, rock singer Eric Dill is 42 years outdated, actor Trevante Rhodes is 34 years outdated, actor Emma Roberts is 33 years outdated, actor Makenzie Vega is 30 years outdated, actor Chloe Grace Moretz is 27 years outdated, Actor Yara Shahidi is 24 years outdated.