On Feb. 10, 1763, France ceded Canada to England as the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French-Indian War.
In 1828, South American revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar became ruler of Colombia.
In 1837, the Illinois legislature granted land to Chicago for a burial ground.
In 1840, England`s Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
In 1846, members of the Mormon faith began an exodus to the West from Nauvoo, Ill.
In 1933, the Postal Telegraph Co. introduced the first singing telegram in New York.
In 1942, the former French liner Normandie burned and capsized at a New York pier as it was being outfitted as a troop transport.
In 1947, peace treaties between the Allies and five of the Axis powers were signed in Paris.
In 1949, Arthur Miller`s ”Death of a Salesman,” starring Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock, opened at the Morosco Theater in New York. In 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for a Soviet spy held by the United States.
In 1964, the House of Representatives passed the most far-reaching civil- rights bill ever considered by Congress.
In 1967, the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It dealt with presidential disability and vacancies in the offices of president and vice president.
In 1972, American bombers and fighter planes made almost 100 strikes in 24 hours against targets in Vietnam.
In 1976, President Gerald Ford ordered a review of bribery and other illegal activities by American corporations and executives in foreign countries.
In 1978, angry coal miners stormed into a United Mine Workers bargaining council meeting in Washington, blocking a council vote on a proposed settlement of the nine-week coal strike.
In 1981, a fire in the Las Vegas Hilton hotel killed eight people and injured 200.
