February 10 facts for kids

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.

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

Up to 1900

• 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)
• 1686 – Hans Egede, Norwegian pastor and missionary in Greenland (d. 1758)
• 1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and scientist (d. 1778)
• 1744 - William Cornwallis, English Royal Navy admiral (d. 1819)
• 1783 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
• 1785 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1836)
• 1788 - Robert P. Letcher, American politician, 15th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1861)
• 1795 - Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
• 1806 - Orville Hickman Browning, 9th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1881)
• 1815 - Constantin Bosianu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1882)
• 1818 - Isham G. Harris, American politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1897)
• 1824 – Samuel Plimsoll, British politician and social reformer (d. 1898)
• 1842 - Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer (d. 1907)
• 1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
• 1847 - Nabinchandra Sen, Bengali poet (d. 1909)
• 1859 – Alexandre Millerand, President of France (d. 1943)
• 1878 – Zdenek Nejedly, Czech intellectual and politician (d. 1962)
• 1881 - Pauline Brunius, Swedish stage and movie actress, and director (d. 1954)
• 1881 - Ken McArthur, South African marathon runner (d. 1960)
• 1884 - Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (d. 1976)
• 1888 - Harry Beaumont, American movie director (d. 1966)
• 1888 - Alexander Cudmore, American soccer player (d. 1944)
• 1888 - Alfredo Pacini, Italian cardinal (d. 1967)
• 1888 - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist and writer (d. 1970)
• 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)
• 1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (d. 1980)
• 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 writer and playwright (d. 1956)
• 1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
• 1899 - Cevdet Sunay, 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982)

1901 – 1950

• 1901 – Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (d. 1987)
• 1903 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
• 1903 - Waldemar Hoven, German Nazi physician (d. 1948)
• 1904 - John Farrow, Australian-American director, father of Mia Farrow (d. 1963)
• 1905 - Walter A. Brown, American businessman (d. 1964)
• 1906 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
• 1910 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar (d. 1969)
• 1910 - Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress (d. 1978)
• 1913 - Douglas Slocombe, English cinematographer (d. 2016)
• 1914 – Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)
• 1915 - Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor (d. 2016)
• 1922 – Arpad Goncz, former President of Hungary (d. 2015)
• 1922 - Harold Hughes, American politician, Governor of Iowa (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Ahti Karjalainen, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1990)
• 1923 – Cesare Siepi, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2010)
• 1925 - Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)
• 1927 - Alma Adamkiene, former First Lady of Lithuania
• 1927 – Leontyne Price, American singer
• 1927 - Brian Priestman, British conductor (d. 2014)
• 1929 - Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian skier (d. 2007)
• 1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (d. 2004)
• 1929 - Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
• 1929 - Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer
• 1930 – Robert Wagner, American actor
• 1931 - Doug Young, American voice actor
• 1932 – Barrie Ingham, English actor (d. 2015)
• 1934 - Kirk Fordice, American politician, Governor of Mississippi (d. 2004)
• 1937 - Yuriy Poyarkov, Ukrainian volleyball player (d. 2017)
• 1939 – Roberta Flack, American singer
• 1939 – Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor General of Canada
• 1939 – Peter Purves, British actor and television presenter
• 1940 - Mary Rand, British sprinter and long jumper
• 1941 – Michael Apted, British movie director
• 1942 - Lawrence Weiner, American conceptual artist
• 1944 – Frank Keating, 25th Governor of Oklahoma
• 1944 - Peter Allen, American singer and actor
• 1946 - Muntaka Connmassie, Nigerian jurist (d. 2017)
• 1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian diplomat, former United Nations Commissioner for Human rights
• 1947 - Nicholas Owen, English journalist
• 1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
• 1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
• 1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer

1951 – 1975

• 1951 - Robert Iger, American entertainment executive
• 1952 – Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
• 1953 - John Shirley, American science fiction author
• 1954 - Peter Ramsauer, German politician
• 1955 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer
• 1955 - Jim Cramer, American television personality
• 1956 - Enele Sopoaga, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
• 1959 - John Calipari, American basketball player
• 1961 - Alexander Payne, American movie director
• 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 - Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
• 1964 – Francesca Neri, Italian actress
• 1964 - Sam Graddy, American athlete
• 1964 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
• 1966 - Ji Suk-jin, South Korean comedian, actor and singer
• 1966 - Natalie Bennett, Australian-English journalist and politician, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
• 1967 – Laura Dern, American actress
• 1967 - Vince Gilligan, American writer and executive producer
• 1968 – Matthias Hamann, German footballer
• 1968 - Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1968 - Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut
• 1970 – Asne Seierstad, Norwegian writer and journalist
• 1970 - Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer and manager
• 1973 - Ajdar, Turkish singer-songwriter and engineer
• 1973 - Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, English businesswoman and philanthropist
• 1974 – Elizabeth Banks, American actress
• 1975 – Kool Savas, German rapper
• 1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player

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)