Malta ~ "Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck" Commemorating (?) the day when (St.) Pauls ship hit a rock off Malta in 60 A.D.


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.


1840 ~ Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.


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.


1996 ~ IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind