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 large numbers of citizens (estimates range from 10,000 to 800,000).. 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. 1982 - Das Boot opens in United States theaters. 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 America contestant named Desiree Washington. 1996 - Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time. 1997 - The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major 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. 2005 - North Korea and weapons of mass destruction: North Korea suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.
Births1609 - Sir John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642) 1846 - Charles Beresford, British Admiral and Member of Parliament (d. 1919) 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Russian 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, German 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)1914 - Larry Adler, jazz musician (d. 2001)1920 - Alex Comfort, physician, writer (d. 2000) 1927 - Leontyne Price, American soprano1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004) 1930 - Robert Wagner, actor 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, author (d. 1989) 1932 - Branko Lustig, Croat film producer 1939 - Roberta Flack, singer 1941 - Michael Apted, director 1943 - Frank-Patrick Steckel, theater director 1944 - Vernor Vinge, novelist1944 - Peter Allen, Australian singer, actor (d. 1992)1944 - Frank Keating, American politician 1947 - Louise Arbour, jurist1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994) 1950 - Mark Spitz, Olympic Games swimming gold medalist 1955 - Greg Norman, golfer1960 - Lionel Cartwright, American country music singer 1961 - George Stephanopoulos, political consultant, commentator 1961 - Alexander Payne, film director 1962 - Cliff Burton, musician (d. 1986) 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 1980 - César Iztúris, baseball player1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress
Deaths 1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and vernacular poet (b. 1071) 1278 - Margaret II, countess of Flanders (b. 1202) 1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760) 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799) 1904 - John A. Roche, mayor of Chicago (b. 1844) 1917 - John William Waterhouse, artist (b. 1849) 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, discover of X-Rays (b. 1845) 1932 - Edgar Wallace, novelist, screenwriter of King Kong (b. 1875) 1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857) 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (b. 1867) 1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian Cardinal (b. 1898) 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) 1993 - Fred Hollows, ophthalmologist (b. 1929) 2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949) 2001 - Abraham Beame, former mayor of New York City (b. 1906) 2002 - Harold Furth, physicist (b. 1939) 2003 - Curt Hennig, professional wrestler (b. 1958) 2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman (b. 1922) 2003 - Al Ruffo, mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908) 2003 - Ron Ziegler, press secetary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939) 2005 - Arthur Miller, playwright (b. 1915)
Holidays and observances Catholicism - St. Scholastica Day; World Marriage Day. Italy - National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe to commemorate Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiliee and Foiba massacres.
External links BBC: On This Day
February 9 - February 11 - January 10 - March 10 -- listing of all days
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