Sunday, February 10, 2013

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – FEBRUARY 10

HISTORICAL EVENTS


1355  The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. The riot started with an altercation at Swindlestock Tavern (where else). Who said education couldn't be dangerous?


1763 
 The French and Indian War (a.k.a., the Seven Years' War) ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. Starting as a regional conflict in North American is escalated to a world-wide conflict between France and Great Britain in 1756.

1861  Jefferson Finis Davis learned he was selected President of the Confederate States of America.



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1962  Soviets exchange CIA U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for a captured Russian spy (Colonel Vilyam Fisher, a.k.a., Rudolf Abel)) at the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin, Germany. He was on a flight to photograph the area of the Kyshtym disaster when his plane was shot down in 1960.



FAMOUS BIRTHS


1890  Russian novelist and poet, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, is born in Moscow.



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1989  Bertolt Brecht, German playwright, is born.



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1927  American lirico spinto ("pushed Lyric") soprano Mary Violet Leontyne Price is born.



FAMOUS DEATHS


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1992 - American writer Alex Haley (Roots) dies.

2005  Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Arthur Miller dies.



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