February 10
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February 10 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining after February 10 until the end of the year (325 in leap years).
[change] Births
- 1499 – Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
- 1606 – Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
- 1685 – Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)
- 1686 – Hans Egede, Norwegian pastor and missionary in Greenland (d. 1758)
- 1783 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
- 1824 – Samuel Plimsoll, British politician and social reformer (d. 1898)
- 1859 – Alexandre Millerand, President of France (d. 1943)
- 1878 – Zdenek Nejedly, Czech intellectual and politician (d. 1962)
- 1890 – Fanny Kaplan, Russian revolutionary, believed to be the attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1918)
- 1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (d. 1960)
- 1892 – Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
- 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, American scientist (d. 1985)
- 1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German author and playwright (d. 1956)
- 1901 – Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
- 1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (d. 1987)
- 1906 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
- 1910 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar (d. 1969)
- 1914 – Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)
- 1922 – Arpad Goncz, former President of Hungary
- 1923 – Ahti Karjalainen, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1990)
- 1923 – Cesare Siepi, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)
- 1927 – Leontyne Price, American singer
- 1930 – Robert Wagner, American actor
- 1934 – Barrie Ingham, English actor
- 1937 – Roberta Flack, American singer
- 1939 – Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor-General of Canada
- 1939 – Peter Purves, British actor and television presenter
- 1941 – Michael Apted, British film director
- 1944 – Frank Keating, 25th Governor of Oklahoma
- 1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer
- 1952 – Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
- 1955 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer
- 1961 – George Stephanopoulos, American television journalist
- 1962 – Cliff Burton, American musician (Metallica) (d. 1986)
- 1963 – Philip Glenister, English actor
- 1964 – Glenn Beck, American broadcaster
- 1964 – Francesca Neri, Italian actress
- 1964 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
- 1967 – Laura Dern, American actress
- 1968 – Matthias Hamann, German footballer
- 1970 – Asne Seierstad, Norwegian author and journalist
- 1974 – Elizabeth Banks, American actress
- 1975 – Kool Savas, German rapper
- 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
- 1981 – Andrew Johnson, English footballer
- 1981 – Holly Willoughby, English television presenter
- 1982 – Justin Gatlin, American athlete
- 1986 – Radamel Falcao Garcia, Colombian footballer
- 1986 – Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
- 1990 – Sooyoung, South Korean singer (Girls' Generation)
- 1991 – Emma Roberts, American actress
[change] Deaths
- 1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
- 1162 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
- 1242 – Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231)
- 1306 – John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, Scottish nobleman
- 1307 – Temur Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan, Emperor of China (b. 1265)
- 1567 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (b. 1546)
- 1755 – Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
- 1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
- 1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer (b. 1799)
- 1857 – David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
- 1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
- 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 – 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)
- 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
- 1964 – Eugen Saenger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
- 1992 – Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
- 2000 – Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
- 2001 – Abraham D. Beame, American politician and Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
- 2002 – Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's press secretary (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
[change] Events
- 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.
- 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Albert, Prince Consort, marry.
- 1863 – The fire extinguisher is patented.
- 1870 – The YWCA (Young Woman's Christian Association) is founded in New York City.
- 1906 – The battleship HMS Dreadnought is launched in Portsmouth.
- 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.
- 1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied Eastern Poland to Siberia.
- 1942 – A Japanese submarine bombs Midway Atoll.
- 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 African Cup of Nations is held for the first time.
- 1962 – Captured American pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- 1996 – The computer Deep Blue first defeats Garry Kasparov in a game of chess.
- 1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a Gay rights law.
- 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.
