Today In History

In 1763: France ceded Canada to England under the Treaty of Paris, which ended the French and Indian War.

In 1840: Britain’s Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

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

In 1933: The first singing telegram was introduced by New York’s Postal Telegram Co.

In 1949: Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” opened at Broadway’s Morosco Theater.

In 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.

In 1968: Peggy Fleming of the United States won the gold medal in ladies’ figure skating at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France.