February 10

February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 324 days remaining, 325 in leap years.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

1258 - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing 10,000 citizens.
1635 - The Acad�mie fran�aise 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).
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

1890 - Boris Pasternak, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958 (+ 1960)
1893 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillean (+ 1980)
1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (+ 1986)
1897 - John F. Enders, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 (+ 1985)
1897 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress (+ 1992)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, author (+ 1956)
1901 - Stella Adler, acting teacher (+ 1992)
1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956
1906 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (+ 1973)
1927 - Leontyne Price, lyric soprano
1930 - Robert Wagner, actor
1931 - Thomas Bernhard, author (+ 1989)
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 - Bobby Czyz, boxer
1967 - Laura Dern, actress
1979 - Ross Powers, American Olympic Games gold medalist for snowboarding

Deaths

1923 - Wilhelm R�ntgen, discover of X-Rays
1939 - Pope Pius XI
1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author
1966 - Billy Rose, composer, band leader (+ 1966)
1992 - Alex Haley, author

Holidays and observances

Catholicism - World Marriage Day.

See Also:

February 9 - February 11 - January 10 - March 10 -- listing of all days

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