1763
Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French and Indian War.
France ceded Canada and all its North American territories
east of the Mississippi to Great Britain.
1837
Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin was killed in a
duel.
1840
Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
1942
Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a
million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
1962
The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by
the United States.
1967
The 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing presidential
succession.
1996
IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion,
Garry Kasparov, in the first game of their match.
2005
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller died.
CHIKWENDU WISDOM.
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