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Tuesday February 10, 2015 This is the 41st day of the year, with 324 days remaining in 2015. 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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