On This Day:
Friday February 10, 2012
This is the 41st day of the year, with 325 days remaining
in 2012.
Fact of the Day: golf tee
The golf tee was invented by George F. Grant of Boston, who
obtained a patent on December 12, 1899, on a wooden tee with
a tapering base portion and flexible tubular concave
shoulder.
Holidays
Feast day of St. William of Maleval, St. Scholastica, St.
Trumwin, St. Austreberta, and St. Soteris.
Malta:
Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck.
Events
1763
- France
ceded Canada
to England
under the Treaty
of Paris, which ended the French
and Indian War (also known as the Seven
Years' War).
1840
- Britain's Queen
Victoria married Prince
Albert.
1846
- Members of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons,
began an exodus to the west from Illinois.
1863
- The fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson
Crane.
1897
- "All the news that's fit to print" appeared on the front
page of "The New
York Times" beginning this day.
1933
- The first singing telegram was introduced by the Postal
Telegram Company in New
York.
1942
- The first gold record (sprayed with gold by the record
company RCA
Victor) was presented to Glenn
Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
1962
- The Soviet
Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis
Gary Powers for Rudolph
Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United
States.
1992
- Boxer Mike
Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis
of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss
Black America contestant.
2002
- The
Southerner train service between Christchurch
and Invercargill
is discontinued after the New
Zealand Government and Tranz
Scenic fail to support the service.
2006
- The XX
Olympic Winter Games open in Turin,
Italy.
Births
1775
- Charles
Lamb, British writer.
1824
- Samuel
Plimsoll, English social reformer, who created
load-line for ships, and invented a rubber-soled canvas
shoe.
1890
- Boris
Pasternak, Russian poet, writer, Nobel
Prize-winner.
1893
- Jimmy
Durante, American actor, comedian.
1894
- Harold
Macmillan, British politician and publisher.
1898
- Dame
Judith Anderson, Australian-born actress.
1898
- Bertolt
Brecht, German dramatist and poet.
1927
- Leontyne
Price, American soprano Metropolitan
Opera.
1950
- Mark
Spitz, Olympic
gold-medal swimmer.
1961
- George
Stephanopoulos, an American broadcaster and political
adviser.
Deaths
1992
- Alex
Haley, American author.
2000
- Jim
Varney, American actor probably best known for his
character Ernest
P. Worrell.
2003
- Ron
Ziegler, White House press secretary to Richard
Nixon.
2005
- Arthur
Miller, American playwright.
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