CHICKEN BUCKETS: TODAY IN HISTORY-THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Thursday, February 10, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY-THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Today is Thursday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2011. There are 324 days left in the year.

Today in History:

Highlight in History:
On 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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On this date in:
1763	France ceded Canada to England under the Treaty of Paris, which ended the French and Indian War.
1840	Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.
1846	Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – the Mormons – began an exodus west from Illinois.
1962	The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for a Soviet spy held by the United States.
1964	Bob Dylan's album "The Times They Are A-Changin"' was released.
1967	The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect.
1989	Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African-American to head a major U.S. political party.
1992	Boxer Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping a Miss Black America contestant.
2004	Rapper-producer Kanye West's debut CD, "The College Dropout," was released.
2005	North Korea boasted publicly for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons.
2007	Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., kicked off his presidential campaign with a speech at the state house in Springfield, Ill.
2007	Gen. David Petraeus took charge of U.S. forces in Iraq.