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Show i 1 On February 10, 1763, a peace treaty was signed ending the French and Indian War; France lost Canada and the American Midwest, and the British tightened their colonial administration ad-ministration in North America ... February 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship, bat-tleship, Maine, was blown up in Havana with 200 killed ... February 14, 1929, the "St. Valentine's Day massacre" took place in Chicago with gangsters killing seven rivals ... February 11, 1945, the Yalta Conference Con-ference ended ... February 12, 1955, the U.S. agreed to help train the South Vietnam est' army ... February 15-16, 1958, a blizzard hit the northeast United States, resulting in 171 deaths ... February 10, 1959, a tornado swept through St Louis, Mo., killing 21 people ... February 14, 1962, President Kennedy said U.S. military advisers in Vietnam would fire if fired upon ... February 10, 1964, the Australian destroyer. Voyager, sank after a collision with the Australian aircraft carrier, Melbourne, Mel-bourne, off New South Wales, killing kill-ing 82 people ... February 18, 1970, a federal jury found the "Chicago 7" innocent of conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Nation-al Convention; however. Five were convicted of crossing state lines with intent to incite riots ... February 12, 1983, the Marine Electric, a coal freighter, sank during a storm off Chincoteague, Va., resulting in 33 deaths ... February 10, 1989, Ronald Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Commit-tee; he was'the first black to lead a major American political party. |