On This Day in History February 10, 2019

Historical Events 60  St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta 1720  Edmond Halley appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory 1763  Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain 1824  Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru 1879  Henry Morton Stanley departs for the Congo 1906  British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design 1952  India holds its first general election: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehruremains in power More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960) Elizabeth Banks 45th Birthday Harold Macmillan (1894 - 1986) Leontyne Price 92nd Birthday More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005) Wilhelm Röntgen (1845 - 1923) More Famous Deaths