LEISURE TIME: ON THIS DAY ...(Features)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | February 10, 2006 | Copyright

1763 After the Seven Years War, the Treaty of Paris was signed with France ceding Canada to Britain.

1824 Samuel Plimsoll, naval reformer, was born in Bristol. He devised the Plimsoll Line, a regulation for the weight ships might safely carry. Rope sandals for sailors were also named after him.

1840 Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

1894 Harold Macmillan, Tory Prime Minister 1957-63 and later 1st Earl of Stockton, was born.

1898 Bertolt Brecht, dramatist and poet, was born in Augsburg, Bavaria.

1913 The ...

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