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