10 Feb 07 - Saturday
1890 Boris L Pasternak Russia, novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)
1893 Jimmy Durante New York NY comedian (and good-night Mrs Calabash)
1950 Mike Rutherford rocker (Genesis)
1959 Tonga [Uliuli Fifita], wrestler (WCW/WAR/WWF, Ming, Haku, Islanders)
1962 Cliff Burton rocker (Metallica)
1964 Mir Aimal Kansi Quetta Pakistan, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1567 Lord Darnley Stuart husband of English queen Mary, murdered
1713 Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier
1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrenders Canada to England
1846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
1855 US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad
granted US citizenship
1863 PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren
(New York NY)
1899 US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley;
US gets Puerto Rico & Guam
1906 Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
1933 Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Company NYC)
1933 Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
1940 "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
1940 Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1943 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
1947 WWII peace treaties signed
1954 Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA
1957 Laura Ingalls Wilder US author (Little House on Prarie), dies at 90
1959 Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265
1962 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
1971 Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
1974 Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
1979 "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1
1986 John Lennon's "Live in NYC" album is released
1988 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco
strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is
an exhibition & not a sport, in a New Jersey court
1992 Alex Haley US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70
1992 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
1993 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
1998 Buddy the Wonder Dog dog (Air Bud), dies of cancer at 9
You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.
Cliff Burton
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