On This Day in History

February 10

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, France surrenders Canada to Great Britain.

1824 Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru.

1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design.

The first ever gold record, awarded to the Glenn Miller Orchestra for "Chattanooga Choo Choo"

1942 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra awarded the 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo".

1952 India holds its first general election, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power.

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Famous Birthdays

Boris Pasternak 1890 - 1960 Jimmy Durante 1893 - 1980

Harold Macmillan 1894 - 1986 Leontyne Price 97th Birthday

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Famous Deaths

Temür Khan 1265 - 1307 Edgar Wallace 1875 - 1932

Also Wilhelm Röntgen, Arthur Miller and Shirley Temple.

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Why 'SuperMac' was Banished From Number 10

War hero, Edwardian gentleman, academic, friend of the Kennedys, former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was born on this day.