February 10th
Today in America's Present Past
1676 | Indian Wars: During “King Phillip’s War,” Wampanoag and Narragansett Indians kill 30 colonists in Lancaster, Massachusetts.
1763 | The Treaty of Paris concludes the French-Indian War, with France surrendering Canada to England.
1807 | Congress: A U.S. coastline survey is authorized.
1807 | General Abner Clark Harding was born.
1855 | Congress: Citizenship laws amended to provide automatic citizenship to children born of citizens abroad.
1858 | POTUS: President Millard Fillmore weds Caroline Carmichael.
1863 | Alanson Crane patents the fire extinguisher.
1870 | The Young Woman’s Christian Association forms in New York City, New York.
1890 | Indian Wars: Sioux Indians ceded 11 million racers to the U.S. for settlement.
1892 | Actor Alan Hale, Sr. was born.
1893 | Actor Jimmy Durante was born.
1897 | The New York Times begins using the tagline “All the News That’s Fit to Print.”
1897 | Microbiologist John Franklin Enders was born.
1899 | POTUS: President Herbert Hoover weds Lou Henry.
1930 | Actor Robert Wagner was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1942 | James Franklin Hyde patients fused silica.
1945 | Outlaw Charles “Lucky” Luciano is deported.
1946 | Jackie Robinson weds Rachel Isum.
1950 | Olympian Mark Spitz was born.
1954 | POTUS: Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against U.S. engagement in Vietnam.
1957 | Author Laura Ingalls Wilder died.
1962 | The US and USSR swap “spies” Francis Gary Power and Rudolph Abel.
1964 | Journalist Glenn Beck was born.
1967 | The 25th Amendment is ratified.
1992 | Author Alex Haley died.
1995 | Author Paul Monette died.
2005 | Author Arthur Miller died.
2007 | Entrepreneur Charles Rudolph Walgreen died.
2008 | Actor Roy Scheider died.
2010 | Politician Charles Wilson died.
2014 | Actress Shirley Temple died.
2017 | Entrepreneur Mike Ilitch died.
2021 | Publisher Larry Flynt died.