• Today is Monday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2014. There are 324 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 10, 1968, U.S. figure skater Peggy Fleming won America's only gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France.
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• On this date:
• In 1763, Britain, Spain and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years' War (also known as the French and Indian War in North America).
• In 1840, Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
• In 1841, Upper Canada and Lower Canada were proclaimed united under an Act of Union passed by the British Parliament.
• In 1933, the first singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegram Co. in New York.
• In 1942, the former French liner Normandie capsized in New York Harbor a day after it caught fire while being refitted for the U.S. Navy. RCA Victor presented Glenn Miller and his Orchestra with a "gold record" for their recording of "Chattanooga Choo Choo," which had sold more than 1 million copies.
• In 1949, Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" opened at Broadway's Morosco Theater with Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman.
• In 1959, a major tornado tore through the St. Louis, Mo., area, killing 21 people and causing heavy damage.
• In 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States. Republican George W. Romney announced his ultimately successful candidacy for governor of Michigan.
• In 1967, the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with presidential

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