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On Feb. 10, 1763, France ceded Canada to England as the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War.
In 1840 England’s Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
In 1893 comedian Jimmy Durante was born in New York City.
In 1947 peace treaties between the Allies and five Axis powers were signed in Paris.
In 1964 the House passed the most far-reaching civil rights bill ever considered by Congress.
In 1981 a fire in the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel killed eight people and injured 200.
