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Friday, February 10, 2012

1763

Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all its North American territories east of the Mississippi to Great Britain.

1837

Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.

1911

In Germany, the feminist League for the Protection of Mothers condemned Paragraph 175, the German sodomy law, and voiced its objection to attempts to extend the law to cover women as well as men.

1942

Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."

1962

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

1976

Andy Lippincott, a gay character, was introduced into Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury.

1981

The Moral Majority announced plans for a $3 million campaign to strike out homosexuality and gay rights in San Francisco. A spokesman announced that homosexual conduct should be a capital crime as it is as serious an offense as murder.

1982

US President Ronald Reagan nominated radio evangelist Sam Hart to the US Civil Rights Commission. Hart was known for his opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, school integration, and gay rights. The nomination was opposed by nearly everyone, including the Philadelphia Conference of Baptist Ministers. When he was forced to withdraw, he blamed the "militant homosexuals."

1985

In Atlanta police raided a bathhouse and arrested ten people, even though bathhouses would remain legal for another fourteen months.

1995

A jury rejected the gay panic defense and convicted Marvin McClendon in the slaying of two gay men near Laurel, Mississippi. He was sentenced to two consecutive life terms.

1997

IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.

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