Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 324 days remaining, 325 in leap years. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1258 - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing 10,000 citizens. 1635 - The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite. 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain. 1814 - Battle of Champaubert occurs. 1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha. 1846 - Many Mormons begin their migration west from Nauvoo, Illinois. 1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City. 1863 - Alanson Crane patents the fire extinguisher. 1870 - Anaheim, California is incorporated. 1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City). 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. 1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia. 1949 - Death of a Salesman opens (Morocco Theatre in New York City). 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. 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is 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. 1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela would be released the next day. 1992 - In Indianapolis, Indiana boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping a Miss Black American contestant named Desiree Washington. 1996 - Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time. 1997 - The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major Gene McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct. 1998 - A college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace. 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law. 1999 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10. Births 1890 - Boris Pasternak, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958 (+ 1960) 1893 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillean (+ 1980) 1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (+ 1986) 1897 - John F. Enders, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 (+ 1985) 1897 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress (+ 1992) 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, author (+ 1956) 1901 - Stella Adler, acting teacher (+ 1992) 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (+ 1973) 1927 - Leontyne Price, lyric soprano 1930 - Robert Wagner, actor 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, author (+ 1989) 1939 - Roberta Flack, singer 1941 - Michael Apted, director 1943 - Frank-Patrick Steckel, theater director 1944 - Vernor Vinge, novelist 1947 - Louise Arbour, Jurist 1950 - Mark Spitz, Olympic Games swimming gold medalist 1955 - Greg Norman, golfer 1961 - George Stephanopoulos, political consultant, commentator 1962 - Bobby Czyz, boxer 1967 - Laura Dern, actress 1979 - Ross Powers, American Olympic Games gold medalist for snowboarding Deaths 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, discover of X-Rays 1939 - Pope Pius XI 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author 1966 - Billy Rose, composer, band leader (+ 1966) 1992 - Alex Haley, author Holidays and observances Catholicism - World Marriage Day. See Also: February 9 - February 11 - January 10 - March 10 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.