WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Today is Wednesday, February 10, the 41st day of 2010. There are 324 days left in the year.

1635 _ Academie Francaise is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)

1749 _ 10th (final) volume of Fielding's ``Tom Jones" is published

1774 _ Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit

1794 _ Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres

1824 _ Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru

1870 _ YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) is founded (New York City)

1897 _ New York Times begins using slogan ``All the News That's Fit to Print"

1949 _ Arthur Miller's ``Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC

1954 _ Eisenhower warns against U.S. intervention in Vietnam

1956 _ Elvis Presley records ``Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA