FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Today is Friday, February 10, the 41st day of 2012. There are 325 days left in the year.

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

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

1863 ― First U.S. fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Va.

1879 ― First electric arc light used (California Theater)

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

1904 ― Japan and Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled seven Russian warships

1933 ― Hitler proclaims end of Marxism

1940 ― ``In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits No. 1

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

1996 ― IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov