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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.
- 2004 "Lion King 1 1/2" released directly to video
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
- 1979 - Ross Powers, American Olympic Games gold medalist for snowboarding
Deaths
Holidays and observances
February 9 - February 11
- January 10 - March 10 --
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