Actor Scott Elrod

Events in 1975 and 10-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Scott Elrod

• Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia (April).
• The city of Saigon is surrendered and remaining Americans are evacuated, ending the Vietnam War (April 30).
• American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in operation by US Navy and Marines, 38 of whom are killed (May 15).
• Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for US-Soviet link-up in space (July 15).

Birthday Scott Elrod (10-2) in history

• Day 10-2 year 1763: The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all North American territories east of Mississippi to Great Britain.
• Day 10-2 year 1837: Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.
• Day 10-2 year 1840: Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
• Day 10-2 year 1942: Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
• Day 10-2 year 1962: The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
• Day 10-2 year 1967: The 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing presidential succession.
• Day 10-2 year 1996: IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in the first game of their match.
• Day 10-2 year 2005: Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller died.