Today in History: Wednesday, February 10, 2016

AP 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.)   AP Photo
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. 2003 Iraq 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. 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. 2011 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down or leave the country and instead handed his powers to his vice president.		Video Highlights of This Day in History Today's Birthdays: Director Alexander Payne turns 55 years old today. AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau Name Profession Age Robert Wagner Actor ("Hart to Hart") 86 Roberta Flack Singer 77 Jimmy Merchant Singer (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) 76 Mark Spitz Olympic gold-medal swimmer 66 Robert Iger Walt Disney Co. president and CEO 65 George Stephanopoulos Broadcast journalist ("This Week") 55 Laura Dern Actress 49 Uzo Aduba Actress ("Orange is the New Black") 35 Chloe Grace Moretz Actress ("Hugo") 19 Actress Elizabeth Banks turns 42 years old today. AP Photo/Evan Agostini