On this day in history, on Feb. 10, 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel on the Glienicke Bridge. In 1736, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years’ War, with France ceding its Canadian territory to Great Britain. In 1936, Nazi Germany passed a law giving the Gestapo secret police absolute authority. In 1959, a tornado in St. Louis killed 21 people. The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, was adopted in 1967. In 1981, eight people died in a fire at the Las Vegas Hilton. In 1996, Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a chess match against IBM computer “Deep Blue.”
Today’s birthdays include Leontyne Price, Robert Wagner, Roberta Flack, Mark Spitz, Greg Norman, John Calipari, Alexander Payne, George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Glenn Beck, Laura Dern, Vince Gilligan, Ty Law, Elizabeth Banks, Tina Thompson, Don Omar, Uzo Aduba, Stephanie Beatriz, Emma Roberts, Lilly King, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Yara Shahidi.
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