Today February 10th in history click read more below to view detail events, deaths, births, Holidays and observances, and video clips in hisotry. Please comments, last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
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 war
1863 – The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
1870 – The YWCA is founded (New York City).
1904 – The Russo-Japanese War over Korea and Manchuria begins after the Battle of Port Arthur.
1906 – HMS Dreadnought (1906) is launched
1920 – 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, Texas.
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.
1933 – Adolf Hitler takes a speech in Sportpalast, Berlin – 10 days after he became Reichskanzler on January 30th.
1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
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 collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of 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 – 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.
2008 – The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea.
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)
1884 – Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
1890 – Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
1890 – Fanny Kaplan, failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin. (d. 1918)
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 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
1903 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
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, British physician and writer (d. 2000)
1924 – Bud Poile, Canadian hockey player and executive (d. 2005)
1926 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)
1927 – Leontyne Price, American soprano
1927 – Brian Priestman, British conductor
1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
1930 – Robert Wagner, American actor
1930 – E.L. Konigsburg, American author
1931 – Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
1931 – Doug Young, American voice actor
1933 – Richard Schickel, American film critic
1934 – Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
1935 – John Alcorn (artist), American designer and illustrator (d. 1992)
1937 – Roberta Flack, American singer
1939 – Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
1940 – Mary Rand, British athlete
1941 – Michael Apted, British director
1943 – Bill Laskey, American football player
1944 – Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
1944 – Frank Keating, American politician
1944 – Rufus Reid, American musician
1944 – Vernor Vinge, American novelist
1944 – Frances Moore Lappe, American writer and activist
1947 – Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
1947 – Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer
1947 – Nicholas Owen, English newsreader
1948 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
1949 – Jim Corcoran, Quebec singer and songwriter
1949 – Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
1949 – Nigel Olsson, British musician
1949 – Harold Sylvester, American actor
1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer
1951 – Robert Iger, American entertainment executive
1952 – Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
1954 – Larry McWilliams, baseball player
1955 – Chris Adams, British pro wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
1955 – Jim Cramer, American television personality
1955 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer
1958 – Michael Weiss, American musician
1959 – Dennis Gentry, American football player
1959 – Lisa McPherson, Former Scientologist (d. 1995)
1960 – Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
1961 – Alexander Payne, American film director
1961 – George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator
1962 – Cliff Burton, American musician (d. 1986)
1962 – Bobby Czyz, American boxer
1962 – Piero Pelù, Italian singer and song-writer (Litfiba)
1963 – Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
1964 – Glenn Beck, American radio and television host
1964 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
1964 – Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
1964 – Francesca Neri, Italian actress
1965 – Mario Jean, Quebec comedian and television actor
1966 – Daryl Johnston, American football player
1967 – Laura Dern, American actress
1967 – Jacky Durand, French cyclist
1967 – Armand Serrano, Filipino animator
1968 – Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player
1968 – Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
1969 – Joe Mangrum, American artist
1969 – Laurie Dhue, American television personality
1970 – Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player
1970 – Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
1970 – Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
1970 – Myrea Pettit, British illustrator
1970 – Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
1971 – Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1971 – Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler
1974 – Elizabeth Banks, American actress
1974 – Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
1974 – Ty Law, American football player
1974 – Tanoai Reed, American stunt performer
1975 – Amber Frey, American witness in the Scott Peterson case
1975 – Kool Savas, German rapper
1975 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
1976 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player
1976 – Kev Brown, American rapper/producer
1977 – Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
1978 – Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
1978 – Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
1979 – Daryl Palumbo, American musician
1979 – Ross Powers, American snowboarder
1980 – César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 – Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
1980 – Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Steve Tully, English footballer
1981 – Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
1981 – Andrew Johnson, English footballer
1981 – Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter
1981 – The Reverend Tholomew Plague, drummer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 – Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
1982 – Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
1982 – Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
1984 – Alex Gordon, American baseball player
1984 – Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
1985 – Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
1986 – Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
1986 – Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1987 – Choi Si Won, Korean singer (Super Junior)
1991 – Emma Roberts, American actress
1994 – Makenzie Vega, American actress
1997 – Chloe Moretz, American actress
Deaths
1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
1162 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
1242 – Emperor Shijo 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 architect
1782 – 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)
1945 – Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
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, California (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)
2008 – Roy Scheider, American Actor (b. 1932)
2008 – Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)
Holidays and observances
Italy – National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe to commemorate Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and Foibe massacres.
Saint Scholastica
St. Paul s Shipwreck day; birth of Catholicism in Malta
Saint Charalampe
Saint Austreberta
February 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
