Feb 10, when British ousted French from India

On this day in 1763, France cedes Canada and India to England as Treaty of Paris is signed

Today is Thursday, February 10, the forty first day of 2005.
There are 324 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1763 - France cedes Canada and India to England as Treaty of Paris is signed, ending French and Indian War.

1811 - Russians take Belgrade and capture Turkish army.
1817 - Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia agree to first reduction of occupation forces in France.
1828 - Simon Bolivar, South American revolutionary, becomes ruler of Colombia.
1846 - British forces under Hugh Gough defeat Sikhs at Sobrahan, India.
1878 - By Convention of El Zanjou, ending Ten Years' War, Spain promises reforms in Cuba.
1879 - Bulgaria's first parliament opens in the town of Veliko Turnovo.

1933 - The first singing telegram is sung in the United States.
1936 - Germany gives the Gestapo a free hand over its citizens.
1939 - Japanese forces occupy Hainan Island, China.
1943 - Britain's Eighth Army reaches Tunisian border in World War II.
1961 - United States relinquishes rights to many defense bases in West Indies.
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.
1964 - Royal Australian Navy destroyer Voyager sinks after collision with HMAS Melbourne off Jervis Bay; more than 80 die.
1969 - United States, Britain and France reject German restrictions on travel to West Berlin, and remind Soviets of their responsibility to ensure free access.
1974 - Iraq claims that 70 Iranians were killed or wounded in border clash between Iraqi and Iranian troops.
1991 - Peruvian health ministry announces that at least 51 people have died of cholera in epidemic along that country's coast.
1992 - Venezuela's president says government officials will no longer censor papers and magazines.
1993 - Six million people in Madagascar vote in elections that topple President Didier Ratsiraka after 17 years in office.
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.
1995 - Mexican government troops raid the headquarters of the Zapatista rebels in the jungles of Chiapas state, but fail to catch leader Subcomandante Marcos.
1996 - A slab of mountainside crushes a highway tunnel, killing 20 people in vehicles on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

2000 - All 164 passengers held hostage on an Afghan airliner during a tense four-day journey across Central Asia and Europe, exit the plane in England.
2002 - Israeli warplanes and helicopter gunships attack a Palestinian National Authority security compound and other targets in Gaza City, wounding more than 30 people.
2003 - French, German and Belgian representatives to NATO veto U.S.-led plans to lend alliance assistance to Turkey, which sought help in preparing for a possible ballistic missile attack by Iraq, if the U.S. launches a pre-emptive attack.

Today's Birthdays:
William Congreve, English dramatist (1670-1729)
Boris Pasternak, Soviet writer (1890-1960)
Leontyne Price, US soprano (1927--)
Robert Wagner, US actor (1930--)
Roberta Flack, US singer (1939--)
Greg Norman, Australian golfer (1955--).

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