February 10

February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining until the end of the year (325 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).

Events

• 1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
• 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriar's Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence
• 1355 – The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
• 1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
• 1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
• 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
• 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
• 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
• 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• 1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
• 1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
• 1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
• 1920 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
• 1930 – Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina
• 1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
• 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
• 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
• 1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
• 1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
• 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.
• 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
• 1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
• 1947 – Crowds gathered at shop windows in Paris to see Christian Dior's New Look fashion - longer skirts, nipped-in waists and padded shoulders.
• 1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 17 relating to Greek is adopted.
• 1949 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 68 is adopted.
• 1954 – United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
• 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
• 1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
• 1964 – Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
• 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1972 – Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up 7 emirates.
• 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 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
• 2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
• 2009 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
• 2013 – Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.

Births

• 1499 – Thomas Platter, Swiss author and scholar (d. 1582)
• 1606 – Christine Marie of France (d. 1663)
• 1609 – John Suckling, English poet and playwright (d. 1642)
• 1685 – Aaron Hill, English poet and playwright (d. 1750)
• 1696 – Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (d. 1765)
• 1744 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (d. 1819)
• 1766 – Benjamin Smith Barton, American botanist and physician (d. 1815)
• 1775 – Charles Lamb, English author (d. 1834)
• 1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836)
• 1795 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter and academic (d. 1858)
• 1821 – Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1908)
• 1824 – Samuel Plimsoll, English merchant and politician (d. 1898)
• 1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (d. 1907)
• 1846 – Lord Charles Beresford, Irish admiral and politician (d. 1919)
• 1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (d. 1927)
• 1847 – Nabinchandra Sen, Bangladeshi poet and author (d. 1909)
• 1859 – Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (d. 1943)
• 1867 – Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and public servant (d. 1957)
• 1868 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (d. 1879)
• 1868 – William Allen White, American journalist and author (d. 1944)
• 1879 – Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (d. 1932)
• 1881 – Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (d. 1954)
• 1883 – Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (d. 1959)
• 1888 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist, and poet (d. 1970)
• 1889 – Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982)
• 1890 – Fanny Kaplan, Ukrainian-Russian activist and rebel (d. 1918)
• 1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1892 – Alan Hale, Sr., American actor and director (d. 1950)
• 1893 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and pianist (d. 1980)
• 1893 – Bill Tilden, American tennis player and coach (d. 1953)
• 1894 – Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
• 1897 – John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
• 1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (d. 1956)
• 1898 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (d. 1979)
• 1901 – Stella Adler, American actress and educator (d. 1992)
• 1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
• 1903 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 1939)
• 1904 – John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1963)
• 1905 – Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics (d. 1964)
• 1905 – Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (d. 1939)
• 1906 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
• 1906 – Erik Rhodes, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
• 1909 – Min Thu Wun, Burmese poet, scholar, and politician (d. 2004)
• 1910 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
• 1910 – Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress (d. 1978)
• 1914 – Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor (d. 2016)
• 1919 – Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2014)
• 1920 – Alex Comfort, English physician and author (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Neva Patterson, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1920 – José Manuel Castañón, Spanish lawyer and author (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Allie Sherman, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Max Ferguson, Canadian radio host and actor (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish soldier, footballer and manager (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano
• 1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
• 1929 – Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer
• 1930 – E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Robert Wagner, American actor and producer
• 1932 – Barrie Ingham, English-American actor (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Richard Schickel, American journalist, author, and critic
• 1933 – Faramarz Payvar, Iranian santur player and composer (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer and conductor
• 1937 – Anne Anderson, Scottish physiologist and academic (d. 1983)
• 1937 – Roberta Flack, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1939 – Adrienne Clarkson, Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician, 26th Governor General of Canada
• 1940 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, Saudi Arabian scholar and academic, 4th Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia
• 1940 – Mary Rand, English sprinter and long jumper
• 1940 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Michael Apted, English director and producer
• 1942 – Lawrence Weiner, American artist
• 1944 – Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1992)
• 1944 – Frank Keating, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Oklahoma
• 1944 – Frances Moore Lappé, American author and activist
• 1944 – Rufus Reid, American bassist and composer (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra)
• 1947 – Louise Arbour, Canadian lawyer and jurist
• 1947 – Butch Morris, American cornet player, composer, and conductor (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Nicholas Owen, English journalist
• 1948 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican economist and politician (d. 1994)
• 1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer
• 1951 – Bob Iger, American media executive
• 1952 – Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
• 1955 – Chris Adams, English-American wrestler and trainer (d. 2001)
• 1955 – Jim Cramer, American financier and author, co-founded TheStreet.com
• 1955 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer and sportscaster
• 1956 – Enele Sopoaga, Tuvaluan politician, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
• 1959 – John Calipari, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Jim Kent, American biologist, computer programmer, academic
• 1961 – Alexander Payne, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 – George Stephanopoulos, American journalist
• 1962 – Cliff Burton, American bass player and songwriter (d. 1986)
• 1962 – Bobby Czyz, American boxer and sportscaster
• 1962 – Randy Velischek, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1963 – Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
• 1964 – Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author
• 1964 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
• 1964 – Francesca Neri, Italian actress and producer
• 1966 – Natalie Bennett, Australian-English journalist and politician
• 1966 – Daryl Johnston, American football player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer
• 1967 – Jacky Durand, French cyclist and sportscaster
• 1967 – Vince Gilligan, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut
• 1969 – Joe Mangrum, American painter and sculptor
• 1970 – Melissa Doyle, Australian journalist and author
• 1970 – Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer and manager
• 1970 – Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist and author
• 1971 – Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (d. 2015)
• 1972 – Michael Kasprowicz, Australian cricketer
• 1973 – Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, English businesswoman and politician, co-founded Lastminute.com
• 1974 – Elizabeth Banks, American actress
• 1974 – Ty Law, American football player
• 1974 – Ivri Lider, Israeli singer-songwriter and producer
• 1974 – Henry Paul, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1976 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player and coach
• 1978 – Don Omar, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Joey Hand, American race car driver
• 1979 – Jumaine Jones, American basketball player
• 1979 – Daryl Palumbo, American singer-songwriter
• 1980 – César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1980 – Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
• 1980 – Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Uzo Aduba, American actress
• 1981 – Andrew Johnson, English footballer
• 1981 – Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Holly Willoughby, English model and television host
• 1982 – Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
• 1982 – Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian footballer
• 1982 – Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Ricardo Clark, American soccer player
• 1983 – Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian gymnast
• 1983 – Vic Fuentes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1983 – Taiji Ishimori, Japanese wrestler
• 1984 – Alex Gordon, American baseball player
• 1984 – Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
• 1985 – Selçuk İnan, Turkish footballer
• 1986 – Jeff Adrien, American basketball player
• 1986 – Josh Akognon, American basketball player
• 1986 – Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
• 1986 – Roberto Jiménez Gago, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
• 1987 – Jakub Kindl, Czech ice hockey player
• 1987 – Facundo Roncaglia, Argentinian footballer
• 1989 – Liam Hendriks, Australian baseball player
• 1990 – Barbara Guarischi, Italian cyclist
• 1990 – Choi Soo-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
• 1991 – Emma Roberts, American actress
• 1992 – Haruka Nakagawa, Japanese singer and actress
• 1992 – Reinhold Yabo, German footballer
• 1993 – Chaochih Liu, Taiwanese-American figure skater
• 1993 – Max Kepler, German baseball player
• 1993 – Filip Twardzik, Czech footballer
• 1993 – Luis Madrigal, Mexican footballer
• 1994 – Na-eun, South Korean singer and actress (Apink)
• 1994 – Kang Seul-gi, South Korean singer
• 1996 – Christina Parie, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
• 1997 – Nadia Podoroska, Argentinian tennis player
• 2000 – Yara Shahidi, an Iranian-American actress

Deaths

• 1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
• 1162 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
• 1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
• 1278 – Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (b. 1202)
• 1307 – Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (b. 1265)
• 1524 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1468)
• 1526 – John V, Count of Oldenburg, German noble (b. 1460)
• 1576 – Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar, translator, and academic (b. 1532)
• 1645 – Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1587)
• 1686 – William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (b. 1605)
• 1722 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
• 1755 – Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (b. 1689)
• 1782 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and author (b. 1702)
• 1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
• 1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (b. 1799)
• 1857 – David Thompson, English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (b. 1770)
• 1865 – Heinrich Lenz, Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1879 – Honoré Daumier, French illustrator and painter (b. 1808)
• 1887 – Ellen Wood, English author (b. 1814)
• 1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (b. 1850)
• 1904 – John A. Roche, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
• 1906 – Ezra Butler Eddy, American-Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1912 – Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (b. 1827)
• 1913 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek long jumper (b. 1888)
• 1917 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-English soldier and painter (b. 1849)
• 1918 – Abdul Hamid II Ottoman sultan (b. 1842)
• 1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
• 1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1928 – José Sánchez del Río Mexican martyr and saint (b. 1913)
• 1932 – Edgar Wallace, English author and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1939 – Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
• 1944 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and chess player (b. 1870)
• 1945 – Anacleto Díaz, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1878)
• 1950 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (b. 1872)
• 1956 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (b. 1872)
• 1956 – Emmanouil Tsouderos, Greek banker and politician, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1882)
• 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
• 1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian engineer (b. 1905)
• 1966 – Billy Rose, American composer and songwriter (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Dionysios Kokkinos, Greek historian and author (b. 1884)
• 1975 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek sailor and poet (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Sadequain, Pakistani painter and calligrapher (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Alex Haley, American soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist and academic (b. 1929)
• 1995 – Paul Monette, American author, poet, and activist (b. 1945)
• 2000 – Jim Varney, American actor, comedian and writer (b. 1949)
• 2001 – Abraham Beame, American academic and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
• 2001 – Buddy Tate, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Albert J. Ruffo, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Jose (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Ron Ziegler, American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (b. 1915)
• 2006 – J Dilla, American rapper and producer (b. 1974)
• 2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor and boxer (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Steve Gerber, American author (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Jeremy Lusk, American motocross racer (b. 1984)
• 2010 – Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Charles Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Trevor Bailey, English cricketer and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Lloyd Morrison, New Zealand banker and businessman, founded H. R. L. Morrison & Co (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Jeffrey Zaslow, American journalist and author (b. 1958)
• 2013 – W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (b. 1927)
• 2013 – David Hartman, American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Eugenio Trías Sagnier, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Shirley Temple, American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Deng Liqun, Chinese theorist and politician (b. 1915)
• 2016 – Fatima Surayya Bajia, Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (b. 1930)
• 2016 – Abdel-Bari Zamzami, Moroccan cleric (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Austrebertha
  • Charalambos
  • Scholastica
  • February 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Public holiday in Malta)
• Fenkil Day (Eritrea)
• National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy) commemorates Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and Foibe massacres (Italy, especially in Trieste)

External links

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