Today is Monday, February 10, the 41st day of 2014. There are 324 days left in the year.
1535 ― Twelve nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1635 ― Academie Francaise is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
1774 ― Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
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”
1934 ― Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says “Life becomes merrier”
1949 ― Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
1954 ― Eisenhower warns against U.S. intervention in Vietnam
1990 ― Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to become heavyweight boxing champion
1996 ― IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov