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Events

• Edmond Halley became second Astronomer Royal of England– 1720
• Treaty of Paris is signed, formally ending the French and Indian War – 1763
• France ceded Canada to England at the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War– 1763
• Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha– 1840
• Act of Union merged Upper and Lower Canada– 1841
• Showman P. T. Barnum staged the wedding of General Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren (both little people) in New York. They had to stand on a piano to greet their guests.– 1863
• Alanson Crane patented a fire extinguisher system– 1863
• Ontario’s first free public library opened, in Guelph– 1883
• German government informed the U.S. that after March 1, 1916, armed merchantmen would be treated as warships and attacked without warning (WW I)– 1916
• New Delhi became the capital of India– 1931
• The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduced the first singing telegram– 1933
• The first gold record was awarded for sales of over one million copies. It was Glenn Miller’s Chattanooga Choo Choo” on RCA”– 1942
• Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman premiered in NY– 1949
• Soviets released U.S. U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in Berlin in exchange for convicted Soviet agent Rudolf Abel– 1962
• The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, providing a contingency plan for presidential succession– 1967
• Peggy Fleming won an Olympic Gold medal in figure skating– 1968
• Arab terrorists killed 1 Israeli and wounded 11 others in an attack at the Munich, West Germany, airport– 1970
• 28 skiers performed backflips while holding hands, Bromont Québec– 1982
• Bonnie Blair became the first U.S. medal winner at the Winter Olympics in Albertville in the women’s 500-meter speed skating. Also the first woman in Olympic history to win consecutive Winter Olympic gold medals– 1992
• Garry Kasparov began chess match against computer Deep Blue”“– 1996
• Brett Hull scored his 700th NHL goal– 2003
• Ray Allen of the Boston Celtics sank his 2,561st 3-pointer, breaking the NBA record set by Reggie Miller– 2011