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February 10 Gregorian calendar . There are 324 days remaining until the end of the year (325 in leap years ).
Events [ ] 1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford , England , leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.1542 - Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery ).1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh , Scotland . The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots , Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination .1763 - French and Indian War : The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain .1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome , on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.1814 - Napoleonic Wars : Battle of Champaubert 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 war1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City .1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City ).1897 - Freedom of religion in Madagascar 1906 - HMS Dreadnought is launched1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea , celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.1923 - Texas Tech University was founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock .1929 - Msgr. Stephen Alencastre , SS.CC. , dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu .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.
1940 - The first Tom and Jerry cartoon "Puss Gets the Boot " premiers.1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia .1949 - Arthur Miller 's play Death of a Salesman 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 .1964 - Melbourne-Voyager collision : The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne HMAS Voyager New South Wales , Australia .1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution 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 .1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.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 that law.
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 .2005 - FBI invades the houses of pro-independence members in Puerto Rico and attacks media members reporting the event.Births [ ] 1499 - Thomas Platter , Swiss humanist (d. 1582 )1524 - Albrecht Giese , German politician and diplomat (d. 1580 )1606 - Christine Marie of France , regent of Savoy (d. 1663 )1609 - John Suckling , English poet (d. 1642 )1685 - Aaron Hill , English writer (d. 1750 )1775 - Charles Lamb , English essayist (d. 1834 )1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy , Russian painter (d. 1873 )1785 - Claude-Louis Navier , French physicist (d. 1936 )1795 - Ary Scheffer , French painter (d. 1858 )1846 - Charles Beresford , British admiral and politician (d. 1919 )1846 - Ira Remsen , American chemist (d. 1927 )
1859 - Alexandre Millerand , French President (d. 1943 )1890 - Boris Pasternak , Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960 )1892 - Alan Hale Sr. , American actor (d. 1950 )1893 - Jimmy Durante , American actor/comedian (d. 1980 )1893 - Bill Tilden , American tennis player (d. 1953 )
1894 - Harold Macmillan , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986 )1897 - Judith Anderson , Australian actress (d. 1992 )1897 - John Franklin Enders , Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1985 )
1898 - Bertolt Brecht , German author (d. 1956 )1898 - Joseph Kessel , French journalist and novelist (d. 1979 )
1901 - Stella Adler , American actress (d. 1992 )1902 - Walter Houser Brattain , Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987 )1903 - Matthias Sindelar , Austrian footballer (d. 1939 )1903 - Waldemar Hoven , German physician (d. 1948 )
1904 - John Farrow , American film director (d. 1963 )1906 - Lon Chaney Jr. , American actor (d. 1973 )1906 - Erik Rhodes , American actor (d. 1990 )
1910 - Georges Pire , Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969 )1914 - Larry Adler , American musician (d. 2001 )1920 - Alex Comfort , physician and writer (d. 2000 )1924 - Bud Poile , National Hockey League player, coach, manager and executive (d. 2005 )1926 - Danny Blanchflower , Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993 )1927 - Leontyne Price , American soprano1927 - Brian Priestman , British conductor
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith , American composer (d. 2004 )1930 - Robert Wagner , American actor1931 - Thomas Bernhard , Austrian author (d. 1989 )1933 - Richard Schickel , American film critic1934 - Fleur Adcock , New Zealand poet1935 - John Alcorn , American designer and illustrator (d. 1992 )1937 - Roberta Flack , American singer1939 - Adrienne Clarkson , 26th Governor General of Canada 1940 - Mary Rand , British athlete1941 - Michael Apted , British director1944 - Peter Allen , Australian singer and actor (d. 1992 )1944 - Rufus Reid , American musician
1944 - Frank Keating , American politician
1944 - Vernor Vinge , American novelist
1947 - Louise Arbour , Canadian judge1947 - Butch Morris , American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor
1947 - Nicholas Owen , English newsreader
1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio , Mexican politician (d. 1994 )1949 - Maxime Le Forestier , French singer1949 - Nigel Olsson , drummer
1949 - Harold Sylvester , American actor
1949 - Jim Corcoran , Quebec singer and songwriter
1950 - Mark Spitz , American swimmer1951 - Robert Iger , President/CEO of The Walt Disney Company 1952 - Lee Hsien Loong , Prime Minister of Singapore 1954 - Larry McWilliams , baseball player1955 - Chris Adams , British pro wrestler and judoka (d. 2001 )1955 - Jim Cramer , American television personality
1955 - Greg Norman , Australian golfer
1958 - Michael Weiss , American musician1959 - Dennis Gentry , American football player1960 - Robert Addie , British actor (d. 2003 )1961 - Alexander Payne , American film director1961 - George Stephanopoulos , Canadian political commentator
1962 - Cliff Burton , American musician (d. 1986 )1962 - Bobby Czyz , American boxer
1963 - Lenny Dykstra , baseball player1964 - Glenn Beck , radio and television host1964 - Victor Davis , Canadian Olympic swimmer (d. 1989 )
1964 - Arthur Lenk , Israeli diplomat
1964 - Francesca Neri , Italian actress
1965 - Mario Jean , Quebec stand up comedian and television actor1967 - Jacky Durand , French cyclist1967 - Laura Dern , American actress
1968 - Atika Suri , Indonesian television newscaster1969 - Joe Mangrum , American artist1970 - Alberto Castillo , Dominican baseball player1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo , Japanese racing driver
1970 - Noureddine Naybet , Moroccan footballer
1970 - Myrea Pettit , British illustrator
1970 - Åsne Seierstad , Norwegian journalist
1971 - Lisa Marie Varon , American professional wrestler1971 - Louie Spicolli , American wrestler (d. 1998 )
1974 - Ty Law , American football player1975 - Amber Frey , American witness1975 - Kool Savas , German rapper
1976 - Lance Berkman , baseball player1976 - Kev Brown , American rapper/producer
1977 - Salif Diao , Senegalese footballer1978 - Lorna Bailey , English ceramic designer1978 - Don Omar , Puerto Rican singer
1979 - Daryl Palumbo , American musician1979 - Ross Powers , American snowboarder
1980 - César Izturis , Venezuelan baseball player1980 - Steve Tully , English footballer
1980 - Mike Ribeiro , National Hockey League player
1981 - Natasha St-Pier , Canadian singer1981 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague , drummer from Avenged Sevenfold
1981 - Andrew Johnson , English footballer
1982 - Justin Gatlin , American sprinter1982 - Iafeta Paleaaesina , New Zealand rugby league player
1982 - Keith Dunne , Irish footballer
1984 - Kim Hyo-jin , South Korean actress1985 - Anette Sagen , Norwegian ski jumper1987 - Choi Si Won , actor/singer, member of Korean boyband Super Junior 1991 - Emma Roberts , American actress1994 - Makenzie Vega , American actress1997 - Chloe Moretz , American actressDeaths [ ] 1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine , poet (b. 1071 )1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130 )1242 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231 )1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202 )1576 - Guilielmus Xylander , German classical scholar (b. 1532 )1686 - William Dugdale , English antiquarian (b. 1605 )1722 - Bartholomew Roberts , Welsh pirate (b. 1682 )1755 - Montesquieu , French writer (b. 1689 )1758 - Thomas Ripley , English architect1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German theologian (b. 1702 )1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760 )1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin , Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799 )1857 - David Thompson , Canadian explorer (b. 1770 )1865 - Heinrich Lenz , German physicist (b. 1804 )1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya , Russian mathematician (b. 1850 )1904 - John A. Roche , Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844 )1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy , Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company ) and politician (b. 1827 )1912 - Joseph Lister , British surgeon (b. 1827 )1917 - John William Waterhouse , Italian-born artist (b. 1849 )1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842 )1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta , Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833 )
1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen , German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845 )1932 - Edgar Wallace , English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875 )1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857 )1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi , Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870 )1950 - Marcel Mauss , French sociologist (b. 1872 )1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin , British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880 )1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder , American author (b. 1867 )1960 - Aloysius Stepinac , Croatian cardinal (b. 1898 )1964 - Eugen Sänger , Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905 )1966 - Billy Rose , American composer and band leader (b. 1899 )1975 - Nikos Kavvadias , Greek poet and writer (b. 1910 )1984 - David Von Erich , professional wrestler (b. 1958 )1985 - Johnny Mokan , baseball player (b. 1895 )1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi , Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930 )1992 - Alex Haley , American author (b. 1921 )1993 - Fred Hollows , New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929 )1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996 )2000 - Jim Varney , American actor (b. 1949 )2001 - Abraham Beame , Mayor of New York City (b. 1906 )2001 - George Holmes Tate , American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913 )
2002 - Traudl Junge , Adolf Hitler 's secretary (b. 1920 )2002 - Dave Van Ronk , American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936 )
2003 - Edgar de Evia , American photographer (b. 1910 )2003 - Curt Hennig , American professional wrestler (b. 1959 )
2003 - Clark MacGregor , United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922 )
2003 - Al Ruffo , Mayor of San Jose (b. 1908 )
2003 - Ron Ziegler , press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939 )
2004 - Guy Provost , Quebec actor (b. 1925 )2005 - Arthur Miller , American playwright (b. 1915 )2006 - J Dilla , American rapper/producer (b. 1974 )2006 - Dick Harmon , American golf instructor (b. 1947 )
2007 - Jung Da Bin , South Korean actress (b. 1980 )2007 - Ned Austin , American character actor (b. 1925 ) Holidays and observances [ ] Liturgical feasts [ ] External links [ ]
137 Familypedia people were born on February 10
153 Familypedia people died on February 10
133 Familypedia people were first married on February 10