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February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . 324 days remain until the end of the year (325 in leap years ).
1258 – Mongol invasions : Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.[1] 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries , Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking the 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.[2] 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon , Portugal, on his second voyage to India.[3] 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. 1712 – Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos .[4] 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 the 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 . 1906 – HMS Dreadnought , the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened.[5] 1920 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea , celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea. 1920 – About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites . 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas 1930 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope to overthrow French protectorate over Vietnam . 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. 1940 – Cartoon characters Tom and Jerry make their debut with Puss Gets the Boot . 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 – The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II . 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam . 1962 – Cold War : 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 seven emirates. 1984 – Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre . 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 . 2007 – Then Illinois senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy for president in the 2008 elections , which he later goes on to win. 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. 2016 – South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 . 2018 – 19 people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns . 1486 – George of the Palatinate , German bishop (d. 1529) 1499 – Thomas Platter , Swiss author and scholar (d. 1582) 1514 – Domenico Bollani , Bishop of Milan (d. 1579) 1606 – Christine of France , Duchess of Savoy (d. 1663) 1609 – John Suckling , English poet and playwright (d. 1642) 1627 – Cornelis de Bie , Flemish poet and jurist (d. 1715) 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 poet and essayist (d. 1834) 1785 – Claude-Louis Navier , French physicist and engineer (d. 1836) 1795 – Ary Scheffer , Dutch-French painter and academic (d. 1858) 1797 – George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (d. 1883) 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) 1843 – Adelina Patti , Italian-French opera singer (d. 1919) 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) 1869 – Royal Cortissoz , American art critic (d. 1948) 1879 – Ernst Põdder , Estonian general (d. 1932) 1881 – Pauline Brunius , Swedish actress and director (d. 1954) 1883 – Edith Clarke , American electrical engineer (d. 1959) 1883 – H.V. Hordern , Australian cricketer (d. 1938) 1889 – Cevdet Sunay , Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982) 1890 – Fanny Kaplan , Ukrainian-Russian activist (d. 1918) 1890 – Boris Pasternak , Russian poet, novelist, and literary 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) 1907 – Anthony Cottrell , New Zealand rugby player (d. 1988) 1908 – Jean Coulthard , Canadian composer and educator (d. 2000)[6] 1909 – Min Thu Wun , Burmese poet, scholar, and politician (d. 2004) 1910 – Dominique Pire , Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969) 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) 1922 – José Gabriel da Costa later known as Mestre Gabriel, Brazilian spiritual leader, founder of the União do Vegetal (d. 1971) 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 1931 – James Edward Maceo West , American inventor and acoustician 1932 – Barrie Ingham , English-American actor (d. 2015) 1933 – Richard Schickel , American journalist, author, and critic (d. 2017) 1933 – Faramarz Payvar , Iranian santur player and composer (d. 2009) 1935 – Theodore Antoniou , Greek composer and conductor (d. 2018) 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 1939 – Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida , Angolan nationalist (d. 1967) 1940 – Mary Rand , English sprinter and long jumper 1940 – Kenny Rankin , American singer-songwriter (d. 2009) 1941 – Michael Apted , English director and producer (d. 2021) 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 1945 – Delma S. Arrigoitia , Puerto Rican historian, author, educator and lawyer 1947 – Louise Arbour , Canadian lawyer and jurist 1947 – Butch Morris , American cornet player, composer, and conductor (d. 2013) 1947 – Nicholas Owen , English journalist 1949 – Nigel Olsson , English rock drummer and singer-songwriter 1950 – 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 – Jim Cramer , American television personality, pundit, and author 1955 – Greg Norman , Australian golfer and sportscaster 1956 – Enele Sopoaga , Tuvaluan politician, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu 1957 – Katherine Freese , American astrophysicist and academic 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 television journalist 1962 – Randy Velischek , Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1962 – Cliff Burton , American heavy metal bassist (d. 1986) 1963 – Lenny Dykstra , American baseball player 1964 – Glenn Beck , American journalist, producer, and author 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 1969 – James Small , South African rugby player (d. 2019) 1970 – Melissa Doyle , Australian journalist and author 1970 – Noureddine Naybet , Moroccan international footballer, central defender and manager[7] 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 1974 – Elizabeth Banks , American actress 1974 – Ty Law , American football player 1974 – Ivri Lider , Israeli singer 1974 – Henry Paul , New Zealand rugby player and coach 1976 – Lance Berkman , American baseball player and coach 1976 – Keeley Hawes , English actress 1977 – Salif Diao , Senegalese footballer 1979 – Joey Hand , American race car driver 1980 – César Izturis , Venezuelan baseball player 1980 – Enzo Maresca , Italian footballer 1980 – Mike Ribeiro , Canadian ice hockey player 1981 – Uzo Aduba , American actress 1981 – Stephanie Beatriz , American actress 1981 – Andrew Johnson , English international footballer, forward and club ambassador[8] 1981 – Holly Willoughby , English model and television host 1982 – Justin Gatlin , American sprinter 1982 – Tarmo Neemelo , Estonian footballer 1982 – Hamad Al-Tayyar , Kuwaiti footballer 1982 – Iafeta Paleaaesina , New Zealand rugby league player 1983 – Vic Fuentes , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1984 – Greg Bird , Australian rugby league player 1984 – Alex Gordon , American baseball player 1984 – Kim Hyo-jin , South Korean actress 1985 – Selçuk İnan , Turkish footballer 1985 – Paul Millsap , American basketball player[9] 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 1988 – Francesco Acerbi , Italian footballer 1989 – Liam Hendriks , Australian baseball player 1990 – Choi Soo-young , South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer 1991 – Rebecca Dempster , Scottish footballer[10] 1991 – Emma Roberts , American actress 1992 – Haruka Nakagawa , Japanese singer and actress 1992 – Reinhold Yabo , German footballer 1993 – Max Kepler , German baseball player 1993 – Filip Twardzik , Czech footballer 1993 – Luis Madrigal , Mexican footballer 1994 – Kang Seul-gi , South Korean singer and member of Red Velvet 1995 – Carolane Soucisse , Canadian ice dancer [11] 1996 – Emanuel Mammana , Argentinian footballer 1997 – Lilly King , American swimmer 1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz , American actress 1997 – Nadia Podoroska , Argentinian tennis player 2000 – Yara Shahidi , American actress and model 547 – Scholastica , Christian nun 1127 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)[12] 1163 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130) 1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231) 1242 – Saint Verdiana , Italian recluse (b. 1182) 1280 – Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (b. 1202) 1306 – John "the Red" Comyn , Scottish nobleman 1307 – Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (b. 1265) 1346 – Blessed Clare of Rimini (b. 1282)[13] 1471 – Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1413) 1524 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1468) 1526 – John V, Count of Oldenburg , German noble (b. 1460) 1567 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1545) 1576 – Wilhelm Xylander , German scholar, translator, and academic (b. 1532) 1686 – William Dugdale , English genealogist and historian (b. 1605) 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) 1846 – Maria Aletta Hulshoff , Dutch feminist and pamphleteer (b. 1781)[14] 1854 – José Joaquín de Herrera , Mexican politician and general. President three times (1844–1854) (b. 1792)[15] 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 , 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) 1920 – Henry Strangways , English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of South Australia (b. 1832) 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) 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) 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) 1997 – Brian Connolly , Scottish musician, lead singer The Sweet (b. 1945)[16] 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 – James Yancey , American record producer and rapper (b. 1974) 2008 – Roy Scheider , American actor and boxer (b. 1932) 2010 – Fred Schaus , American basketball player and coach (b. 1925) 2010 – Charles Wilson , American lieutenant and politician (b. 1933) 2010 – Jun Seba , Japanese record producer, audio engineer and composer (b. 1974) 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) 2014 – Stuart Hall , Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (b. 1932) 2014 – Shirley Temple , American actress 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) 2017 – Mike Ilitch , American businessman (b. 1929) 2019 – Carmen Argenziano , American actor (b. 1943)[17] 2019 – Jan-Michael Vincent , American actor (b. 1944)[18] Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
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