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10 February is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 324 days remaining, 325 in Leap Year s.
Events
- 1258 - Battle Of Baghdad - Mongols overrun Baghdad , burning it to the ground and killing large numbers of citizens (estimates range from 10,000 to 800,000).
- 1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day Riot breaks out in Oxford , England , leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
- 1542 - Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower Of London to be Executed three days later for treason ( Adultery ).
- ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain .
- 1814 - Battle Of Champaubert
- 1840 - Queen Victoria Of The United Kingdom marries Prince Albert Of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha .
- 1846 - Battle Of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of 1st Anglo-Sikh War
- 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 - 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.
- 1929 - Msgr. Stephen Alencastre , SS.CC. , dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu .
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 1964 - The aircraft carrier '' HMAS Melbourne '' collides with the HMAS ''Voyager'' off the south coast of New South Wales , Australia .
- 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 .
- 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
- 1997 - The United States Army suspends CSM Gene C. 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.
- 2003 - France and Belgium broke the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq .
- suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing Nuclear Weapon s.
Births
- 1499 - Thomas Platter , Swiss humanist (d. 1582 )
- 1524 - Albrecht Giese IV , German politician and diplomat (d. 1580 )
- 1609 - Sir John Suckling , English poet (d. 1642 )
- 1685 - Aaron Hill , English writer (d. 1750 )
- 1785 - Claude-Louis Navier , French physicist (d. 1936 )
- 1846 - Charles Beresford , British admiral and politician (d. 1919 )
- 1887 - John Franklin Enders , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1985 )
- 1890 - Boris Pasternak , Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960 )
- 1892 - Alan Hale Sr. , American actor (d. 1950 )
- 1893 - Jimmy Durante , American actor, singer, and comedian (d. 1980 )
- 1893 - Bill Tilden , American tennis player (d. 1953 )
- 1894 - Harold Macmillan , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1986 )
- 1897 - Dame Judith Anderson , Australian actress (d. 1992 )
- 1898 - Bertolt Brecht , German author (d. 1956 )
- 1901 - Stella Adler , American actress (d. 1992 )
- 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987 )
- 1904 - John Farrow , American film director (d. 1963 )
- 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr. , American actor (d. 1973 )
- 1906 - Erik Rhodes , American actor (d. 1990 )
- 1910 - Georges Pire , Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1969 )
- 1914 - Larry Adler , American musician (d. 2001 )
- 1920 - Alex Comfort , physician and writer (d. 2000 )
- 1926 - Danny Blanchflower , Northern Irish footballer and football manager (d. 1993 )
- 1927 - Leontyne Price , American soprano
- 1929 - Jerry Goldsmith , American composer (d. 2004 )
- 1930 - Robert Wagner , American actor
- 1931 - Thomas Bernhard , Austrian author (d. 1989 )
- 1932 - Branko Lustig , Croatian film producer
- 1934 - Fleur Adcock , New Zealand poet
- 1939 - Adrienne Clarkson , 26th Governor General Of Canada
- 1939 - Roberta Flack , American singer
- 1941 - Michael Apted , British director
- 1944 - Peter Allen , Australian singer and actor (d. 1992 )
- 1944 - Rufus Reid , American Jazz Musician, Bassist
- 1944 - Frank Keating , American politician
- 1944 - Vernor Vinge , American novelist
- 1947 - Louise Arbour , Canadian judge
- 1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio , Mexican politician (d. 1994 )
- 1949 - Maxime Le Forestier , French singer
- 1949 - Harold Sylvester , American actor
- 1950 - Mark Spitz , American swimmer
- 1951 - Roxanne Pulitzer , American model
- 1951 - Robert Iger , President and CEO of The Walt Disney Company
- 1955 - Christopher Adams , British judoka and professional wrestler (d. 2001 )
- 1955 - Greg Norman , Australian golfer
- 1955 - James Cramer , American Television personality
- 1960 - Robert Addie , British actor (d. 2003 )
- 1961 - Alexander Payne , American film director
- 1961 - George Stephanopoulos , American political consultant and commentator
- 1962 - Cliff Burton , American musician (d. 1986 )
- 1962 - Bobby Czyz , American boxer
- 1963 - Lenny Dykstra , baseball player
- 1968 - Atika Suri , Indonesian television newscaster
- 1969 - Tim Clark , South African golfer
- 1969 - Joe Mangrum , American artist
- 1970 - Noureddine Naybet , Moroccan footballer
- 1971 - Lisa Marie Varon , American professional wrestler
- 1971 - Louie Spicolli , American wrestler
- 1974 - Ty Law , American football player
- 1976 - Lance Berkman , baseball player
- 1976 - Dat Nguyen , football player
- 1979 - Daryl Palumbo , American musician
- 1979 - Ross Powers , American snowboarder
- 1980 - César Izturis , baseball player
- 1981 - Natasha St-Pier , Canadian singer
- 1981 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague , American musician ( Avenged Sevenfold )
- 1985 - Anette Sagen , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1991 - Emma Roberts , American actress
- 1994 - Makenzie Vega , American actress
- 1997 - Chloe Moretz , American actress
Deaths
- 1126 - William IX, Duke Of Aquitaine , poet (b. 1071 )
- 1162 - King Baldwin III Of Jerusalem (b. 1130 )
- 1242 - Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231 )
- 1278 - Margaret II Of Flanders (b. 1202 )
- 1576 - Guilielmus Xylander , German classical scholar (b. 1532 )
- 1686 - William Dugdale , English antiquarian (b. 1605 )
- 1722 - Bartholomew Roberts , English pirate
- 1755 - Montesquieu , French writer (b. 1689 )
- 1758 - Thomas Ripley , English architect
- 1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German theologian (b. 1702 )
- 1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760 )
- 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin , Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799 )
- 1865 - Heinrich Lenz , German physicist (b. 1804 )
- 1904 - John A. Roche , Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844 )
- 1912 - Joseph Lister , British surgeon (b. 1827 )
- 1917 - John William Waterhouse , Italian-born artist (b. 1849 )
- 1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842 )
- 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta , Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833 )
- 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845 )
- 1932 - Edgar Wallace , English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875 )
- 1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857 )
- 1950 - Marcel Mauss , French sociologist (b. 1872 )
- 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder , American author (b. 1867 )
- 1960 - Aloysius Stepinac , Croatian cardinal (b. 1898 )
- 1964 - Eugen Sänger , Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905 )
- 1966 - Billy Rose , American composer and band leader (b. 1899 )
- 1984 - David Von Erich , professional wrestler (b. 1958 )
- 1985 - Johnny Mokan , baseball player (b. 1895 )
- 1992 - Alex Haley , American author (b. 1921 )
- 1993 - Fred Hollows , Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1929 )
- 2000 - Jim Varney , American actor (b. 1949 )
- 2001 - Abraham Beame , Mayor of New York City (b. 1906 )
- 2002 - Traudl Junge , Hitler 's secretary (b. 1920 )
- 2003 - Edgar De Evia , American photographer (b. 1910 )
- 2003 - Curt Hennig , American professional wrestler (b. 1958 )
- 2003 - Clark MacGregor , U.S. Congressman (b. 1922 )
- 2003 - Al Ruffo , Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908 )
- 2003 - Ron Ziegler , American press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939 )
- 2005 - Arthur Miller , American playwright (b. 1915 )
- 2006 - J Dilla , Rapper/Producer, former member of Slum Village (b. 1974 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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