February 10

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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).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

60 - Paul of Tarsus journeys to Rome, but is shipwrecked at Malta. He stays on Malta for three months and converts the Roman governor Publius. The exact date is not known, however, the feast is celebrated on this day.
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.
2007 - Barack Obama announces his candidacy in the 2008 United States Presidential Election
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, 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 soprano
1927 - Brian Priestman, British conductor
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor
1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
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
1944 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
1944 - Frank Keating, American politician
1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician
1944 - Vernor Vinge, American novelist
1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
1947 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor
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, drummer
1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor
1950 - Mark Spitz, American swimmer
1951 - Robert Iger, President/CEO of The Walt Disney Company
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, leader of Litfiba from 1980 to 1999
1963 - Lenny Dykstra, baseball player
1964 - Glenn Beck, radio and television host
1964 - 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 actor
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, FOX News 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 - Ty Law, American football player
1974 - Tanoai Reed, American stunt performer
1975 - Amber Frey, American witness
1975 - Kool Savas, German rapper
1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
1976 - Lance Berkman, 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 - 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 - Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1987 - Choi Si Won, actor/singer, member of Korean boyband Super Junior
1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress
1994 - Makenzie Vega, American actress
1997 - Chloe Moretz, American actress