Manager Michael Apted

Events in 1941 and 10-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Michael Apted

• Germany attacks the Balkans and Russia.
• Japanese surprise attack on U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor brings U.S. into World War II; U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan.
• The first U.S. Lend-Lease shipment of food sent to Britain.

Birthday Michael Apted (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.