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).

Events

Up to 1900

1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols.
1306 – In Dumfries, Robert the Bruce kills John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch.
1355 – St. Scholastica's Day riot: Two days of rioting in Oxford leaves 63 scholars and probably 30 locals dead.
1567 – An Explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field building in Edinburgh and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley is found dead, most probably in an assassination.
1763 – In the Treaty of Paris, France has to give Quebec to Great Britain.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and Prussians.
1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Albert, Prince Consort, marry.
1861 – Jefferson Davis is informed by telegraph of his election as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1863 – The fire extinguisher is patented.
1870 – The YWCA (Young Woman's Christian Association) is founded in New York City.
1881 – French opera Les contes d'Hoffmann is first performed in Paris.

1901 – 2000

1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Japan declares war on Russia.
1906 – The battleship HMS Dreadnought is launched in Portsmouth.
1910 – Off Minorca, French passenger ship General Chanzy is tossed against a reef in a storm, causing it to sink. Only 1 of the 156 people on board survives.
1920 – North Schleswig votes to become part of Denmark.
1933 – Round 13 of Boxing Match in New York City's Madison Square Garden: Primo Carnera knocks down Ernie Schaaf, who dies four days later as a result of his injuries.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists finish their conquest of Catalonia and seal Spain's border with France.
1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied Eastern Poland to Siberia.
1942 – A Japanese submarine bombs Midway Atoll.
1945 – German passenger ship Steuben with 4,000 refugees on board off the Pomeranian Baltic Sea coast, is torpedoed by a Soviet U-boat and sinks, killing 3,500.
1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia-Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1949 – The play Death of a Salesman is performed for the first time in Broadway. Its writer, Arthur Miller, dies on the same date 56 years later.
1952 – Jawaharlal Nehru wins India's first election.
1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against intervention in Vietnam.
1957 – In Sudan, football's Africa Cup of Nations is held for the first time.
1962 – Captured American pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1964 – Aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with destroyer HMAS Voyager off the coast of New South Wales, Australia.
1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1972 – The remote North Atlantic rock of Rockall is fully integrated as part of Scotland.
1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas hotel–casino kills 8 people.
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl meet for talks.
1996 – The computer Deep Blue first defeats Garry Kasparov in a game of chess.
1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a Gay rights law.

From 2001

2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval, concerning protective measures for Turkey in the event of a war in Iraq.
2005 – North Korea announces that it is developing nuclear weapons.
2005 – A dam break in Shadi Kor, Pakistan, kills between 140 and 500 people.
2005 – It is announced that Charles, Prince of Wales will marry Camilla Parker-Bowles.
2006 – XX Olympic Winter Games opened in Turin, Italy.
2007 – Barack Obama announces his intention to run for President of the United States.
2009 – Communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit.
2013 – The Nigeria national football team wins the Africa Cup of Nations, defeating the Burkina Faso national football team 1–0 in the final.
2013 – A stampede at the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India, kills 36 people.
2015 – It is announced that Australia will make a one-off appearance at the 60th Eurovision Song Contest. They are later invited to take part in 2016, 2017 and 2018 as well.

Births

From 1976

1976 – Keeley Hawes, English actress
1976 – Carlos Jimenez Sanchez, Spanish basketball player
1980 – Riki Flutey, New Zealand-born English rugby player
1980 – Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
1980 – Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Bruno Sundov, Croatian basketball player
1981 – Andrew Johnson, English footballer
1981 – Holly Willoughby, English television presenter
1981 – Ozo Aduba, American actress and singer
1982 – Justin Gatlin, American athlete
1983 – Ricardo Clark, American soccer player
1984 – Jemma Simpson, British athlete
1985 – Anette Sagen, Norwegian skier
1986 – Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
1986 – Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
1986 – Josh Akognon, Nigerian-American basketball player
1986 – Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1987 – Choi Siwon, South Korean singer
1987 – Facundo Roncaglia, Argentine footballer
1988 – Jade Ramsey, English actress
1989 – Neelofa, Malaysian actress, television host and model
1990 – Sooyoung, South Korean singer (Girls' Generation)
1991 – Emma Roberts, American actress
1992 – Misha B, American rapper and singer
1992 – Haruka Nakagawa, Japanese singer
1992 – Reinhold Yabo, German footballer
1993 – Max Kepler, German baseball player
1994 – Son Na-eun, South Korean singer and actress
1994 – Kang Seul-gi, South Korean singer
1994 – Mackenzie Vega, American actress
1995 – Haruna Kawaguchi, Japanese model and actress
1996 – Christina Parie, Australian singer-songwriter
1997 – Chloe Moretz, American actress
1998 – Candy Hsu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actress and record producer
2000 – Yara Shahidi, Iranian-American actress

Deaths

Up to 1900

547 – Scholastica, Christian nun
1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
1162 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
1242 – Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231)
1278 – Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
1306 – John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, Scottish nobleman
1307 – Temur Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan, Emperor of China (b. 1265)
1543 – Johannes Eck, German theologian (b. 1486)
1567 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (b. 1546)
1755 – Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
1758 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1682)
1782 – Christian Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer (b. 1799)
1854 – Jose Joaquin de Herrera, President of Mexico (b. 1792)
1857 – David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
1865 – Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)

1901 – 2000

1904 – John A. Roche, American politician (b. 1844)
1912 – Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
1913 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1888)
1917 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
1918 – Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1842)
1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist (b. 1833)
1923 – Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, German scientist (b. 1845)
1932 – Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
1939 – Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
1944 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and chess player (b. 1870)
1956 – Emmanouil Tsouderos, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1882)
1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American writer (b. 1867)
1958 – Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian athlete (b. 1899)
1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1964 – Eugen Saenger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
1966 – Billy Rose, American composer (b. 1898)
1975 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
1979 – Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav Communist leader (b. 1910)
1985 – Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (b. 1895)
1990 – Bill Sherwood, American producer and composer (b. 1952)
1992 – Alex Haley, American writer (b. 1921)
2000 – Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)

From 2001

2001 – Abraham D. Beame, American politician and Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
2002 – Dave Van Ronk, American musician (b. 1936)
2002 – Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's press secretary (b. 1920)
2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
2009 – Jeremy Lusk, American motocross racer (b. 1984)
2010 – Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
2014 – Stuart Hall, Jamaican-British sociologist and cultural theorist (b. 1932)
2014 – Doug Jarrett, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
2014 – Ronnie Masterson, Irish actress (b. 1926)
2014 – Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (b. 1928)
2015 – Deng Liqun, Chinese politician (b. 1915)
2015 – Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (b. 1934)
2015 – Karl Josef Becker, German theologian and cardinal (b. 1928)
2016 – Phil Gartside, English businessman (b. 1952)
2016 – Leo Ehlen, Dutch footballer (b. 1953)
2016 – Andrew L. Lewis, Jr., American business executive and politician (b. 1931)
2016 – Eliseo Prado, Argentine footballer (b. 1929)
2016 – Günter Schröter, German footballer (b. 1927)
2016 – Claude Jeancolas, French writer, artist and journalist (b. 1949)
2017 – Edward Bryant, American writer (b. 1945)
2017 – Mike Ilitch, American businessman and sports owner (b. 1929)
2017 – Piet Keizer, Dutch footballer (b. 1943)
2017 – Yuriy Poyarkov, Ukrainian volleyball player (b. 1937)
2017 – Hal Moore, American general and author (b. 1922)
2017 – Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Japanese swimmer (b. 1939)
2018 – Jeff Bell, American politician (b. 1943)
2018 – Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1938)

Observances

Feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)
Fenkil Day (Eritrea)

February 10

Events

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Births

Up to 1900

1901 – 1950

1951 – 1975

From 1976

Deaths

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Observances