February 10: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
2. 1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
3. 1861 - Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
4. 1940 - The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
5. 1943 - World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
6. 1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
7. 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
8. 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
9. 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
10. 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
11. Famous Birthdays: Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (Russian painter), Boris Pasternak (Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate), John Franklin Enders (American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate), Walter Houser Brattain (Chinese-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate), Dominique Pire (Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate)

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