Today is Tuesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2009. There are 324 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2009. There are 324 days left in the year. On this date 1763, France cedes Canada and India to England as the Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the French and Indian War.

In 1879, Bulgaria’s first parliament opens in the town of Veliko Turnovo. In 1933, the first singing telegram is sung in the United States. In 1939, Japanese forces occupy Hainan Island, China. In 1943, Britain’s Eighth Army reaches the Tunisian border in World War II. In 1961, the United States relinquishes rights to many defense bases in West Indies. In 1962, the Soviet Union exchanges captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States. In 1964, the Royal Australian Navy destroyer Voyager sinks after a collision with HMAS Melbourne off Jervis Bay; more than 80 die. In 1969, the United States, Britain and France reject East German restrictions on travel to West Berlin, and remind Soviets of their responsibility to ensure free access. In 1974, Iraq claims that 70 Iranians were killed or wounded in a border clash between Iraqi and Iranian troops. In 1991, the Peruvian health ministry announces that at least 51 people have died of cholera in an epidemic along that country’s coast. In 1993. 6 million people in Madagascar vote in elections that topple President Didier Ratsiraka after 17 years in office. In 1994, the worst of the Bosnian war is over for the battered city of Sarajevo, where a U.N.-brokered cease-fire goes into effect. In 1995, Mexican government troops raid the headquarters of the Zapatista rebels in the jungles of Chiapas state, but fail to catch leader Subcomandante Marcos. In 1996, a slab of mountainside crushes a highway tunnel, killing 20 people in vehicles on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

February 10, 1984: Ralph Gaudio, who was on the FBI’s wanted list for eight months, is arrested by Youngstown FBI agents at a Market Street restaurant on charges of possessing more than $50,000 in tranquilizers and cocaine.

General Motors is the last of the Big Three to enter mini-van competition, with the introduction of the rear-heel drive Chevrolet Astro.

Danny Corbisello, fighting for the Warren PAL, wins two Golden Glove fights in one night in Struthers. Corbisello has an outstanding amateur record, having beaten Todd Hickman, a member of the U.S. boxing team four times in Junior Olympic bouts.

February 10, 1969: I.W. Abel, president of the United Steelworkers of America, winds up his nationwide re-election campaign in Youngstown with a plea for membership unity and a promise to continue the fight for higher wages and greater fringe benefits.

Wayne Williams, a custodian at Mary Haddow School, is locked in the trunk of his car for more than an hour by a burglar he surprised in a school office.

The Prize-winning Warren Junior Military Band will present its annual concert at the Packard Music Hall.

February 10, 1959: A three-inch rain brings new flooding to the Mahoning Valley.

Sharon is in a state of emergency for the third time in seven months as the Shenango River overflows its banks.

Forest S. Beckett, president of Youngstown Airways Inc., says his company will open a Cleveland branch at Lakefront Airport.

Alert Youngstown police catch an 18-year-old youth hiding on a rooftop near the scene of a W. Commerce Street burglary.

Mrs. Ruth Shick, 32, of 123 E. Warren Ave., Youngstown, and her seven-week old daughter, Cynthia, die in a fire in the Chicago apartment of Mrs. Shick’s brother, where she had been visiting.

February 10, 1934: Dr. William H. Hudnut and Mrs. Hudnut are honored at dedicatory exercises of the new education unit of First Presbyterian Church and the unit is named Hudnut Hall, honoring the pastor and Harriet Beecher Hudnut. More than 600 people attend the open house of the $107,000 addition.

John H. Clarke of San Diego, Calif., a Lisbon native and former justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, endorses the candidacy of Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court for the vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals.