On This Day: February 10

This is the 41st day of the year.

Fact of the Day: All the News That's Fit to Print

The slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print," appeared on page one of The New York Times in 1897. It had first appeared on the editorial page on October 25, 1896. Although in 1896 a $100 prize was offered for a slogan, owner Adolph S. Ochs concluded that his own slogan was best.

Holidays

Feast day of St. William of Maleval, St. Scholastica, St. Trumwin, St. Austreberta, and St. Soteris.

Malta: Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck.

Events

1763 - France ceded Canada to England under the Treaty of Paris, which ended the French and Indian War (also known as the Seven Years' War).

1840 - Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.

1846 - Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons, began an exodus to the west from Illinois.

1863 - The fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane.

1897 - "All the news that's fit to print" appeared on the front page of "The New York Times" beginning this day.

1933 - The first singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegram Company in New York.

1942 - The first gold record (sprayed with gold by the record company RCA Victor) was presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo."

1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.

1992 - Boxer Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant.

2002 - The Southerner train service between Christchurch and Invercargill is discontinued after the New Zealand Government and Tranz Scenic fail to support the service.

2006 - The XX Olympic Winter Games open in Turin, Italy.

Births

1775 - Charles Lamb, British writer.

1824 - Samuel Plimsoll, English social reformer, who created load-line for ships, and invented a rubber-soled canvas shoe.

1890 - Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, writer, Nobel Prize-winner.

1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor, comedian.

1894 - Harold Macmillan, British politician and publisher.

1898 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian-born actress.

1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German dramatist and poet.

1927 - Leontyne Price, American soprano Metropolitan Opera.

1950 - Mark Spitz, Olympic gold-medal swimmer.

1961 - George Stephanopoulos, an American broadcaster and political adviser.

Deaths

1992 - Alex Haley, American author.

2000 - Jim Varney, American actor probably best known for his character Ernest P. Worrell.

2003 - Ron Ziegler, White House press secretary to Richard Nixon.

2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright.