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
     10,000 citizens
   * 1635 - The AcadŽmie 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
   * 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

Deaths

   * 1923 - Wilhelm Ršntgen, 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.