February 10 in History

• 1763

  February 10, 1763:

  France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Paris to put an end to conflicts about territories in the Seven Years’ War between the two countries.

• 1837

  February 10, 1837:

  Aleksandr Pushkin, the Russian author, dies while defending his wife’s honor in a duel.

• 1846

  February 10, 1846:

  The Sikhs are defeated by the British in the First Sikh War’s Battle of Sobraon.

• 1939

  February 10, 1939:

  “Stagecoach”, an American film, is premiered around the world.

• 1942

  February 10, 1942:

  RCA Victor, Glenn Miller’s record label, honors him with the first-ever gold “trophy” for selling more than a million copies of his single, “Chattanooga Choo Choo”.

• 1989

  February 10, 1989:

  The World Wrestling Federation claims in a New Jersey court that wrestling is not a sport but an exhibition in order to avoid being regulated.

• 1990

  February 10, 1990:

  While making its way to Jupiter, Galileo, a spacecraft flies past Venus.

• 1993

  February 10, 1993:

  ABC’s showing of the interview, “Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey” reportedly draws 90 million viewers.

• 1996

  February 10, 1996:

  Gary Kasparov, a world chess champion faces off against IBM’s chess-playing computer named Deep Blue in a six-round match and wins.

• 2006

  February 10, 2006:

  Fox airs the final episode of the television series, “Arrested Development” for its original run.