February 10
February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 324 days remaining, 325 in leap years.
Events
- 1258 - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing 10,000 citizens.
- 1635 - The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite.
- 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.
- 1814 - Battle of Champaubert occurs.
- 1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.
- 1846 - Many Mormons begin their migration west from Nauvoo, Illinois.
- 1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
- 1863 - Alanson Crane patents the fire extinguisher.
- 1870 - Anaheim, California is incorporated.
- 1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City).
- 1920 Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
- 1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
- 1933 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
- 1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
- 1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
- 1949 - Death of a Salesman opens (Morocco Theatre in New York City).
- 1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
- 1962 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- 1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
- 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
- 1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela would be released the next day.
- 1992 - In Indianapolis, Indiana boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping a Miss Black American contestant named Desiree Washington.
- 1996 - Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
- 1997 - The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major Gene McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.
- 1998 - A college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace.
- 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
- 1999 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10.
Births
- 1846 - Charles Beresford, British Admiral and Member of Parliament (d. 1919)
- 1890 - Boris Pasternak, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958 (d. 1960)
- 1893 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillean (d. 1980)
- 1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
- 1897 - John F. Enders, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 (d. 1985)
- 1897 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress (d. 1992)
- 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, author (d. 1956)
- 1901 - Stella Adler, acting teacher (d. 1992)
- 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 (d. 1987)
- 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., actor (d. 1973)
- 1927 - Leontyne Price, lyric soprano
- 1930 - Robert Wagner, actor
- 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, author (d. 1989)
- 1932 - Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer
- 1939 - Roberta Flack, singer
- 1941 - Michael Apted, director
- 1943 - Frank-Patrick Steckel, theater director
- 1944 - Vernor Vinge, novelist
- 1947 - Louise Arbour, Jurist
- 1950 - Mark Spitz, Olympic Games swimming gold medalist
- 1955 - Greg Norman, golfer
- 1961 - George Stephanopoulos, political consultant, commentator
- 1962 - Cliff Burton, musician
- 1962 - Bobby Czyz, boxer
- 1967 - Laura Dern, actress
- 1976 - Lance Berkman, Major League Baseball All-Star
- 1979 - Ross Powers, American Olympic Games gold medalist for snowboarding
Deaths
- 1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and vernacular poet (b.1071)
- 1278 - Margaret II, countess of Flanders
- 1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
- 1904 - John A. Roche, mayor of Chicago, IL (b. 1844)
- 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, discover of X-Rays (b. 1845)
- 1932 - Edgar Wallace, novelist, screenwriter of King Kong
- 1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
- 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (b. 1867)
- 1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
- 1966 - Billy Rose, composer, band leader (b. 1899)
- 1985 - Johnny Mokan, professional baseball player (b 1895)
- 1992 - Alex Haley, author (b. 1921)
Holidays and observances
February 9 - February 11 - January 10 - March 10 -- listing of all days
