On this day in History - 10 Feb.

• 1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and vernacular poet, dies (b.1071).
• 1258 - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing 10,000 citizens.
• 1278 - Margaret II, countess of Flanders, dies .
• 1567 - Lorde Darnley, segundo marido de Mary, Rainha dos Escoceses, é assassinado.
• 1635 - The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite.
• 1720 - Edmund Halley es nombrado astrónomo real de Inglaterra .
• 1755 - Muere el escritor y político Charles-Louis de Secondat, teórico de la democracia representativa.
• 1755 - Muere el escritor y filósofo Montesquieu.
• 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.
• 1774 - É abolida a Inquisição de Goa, por despacho do Marquês de Pombal.
• 1790 - Na continuação das reformas dos conventos, proíbe-se a admissão de noviços e noviças nos mosteiros e conventos.
• 1792 - O príncipe D. João, futuro D. João VI, assume a governação, em nome de sua mãe a rainha D. Maria II.
• 1805 - Se suprimen por decreto las corridas de toros en España.
• 1808 -John Edgar Thomson was born (d. 27 May 1874) . American civil engineer and third president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company who consolidated a network of railroad lines from Philadelphia to various cities in the Midwest and the South .
• 1814 - Battle of Champaubert occurs.
• 1829 - Pope Leo XII dies, (b. 1760) .
• 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, was killed in a duel. Russian poet and novelist .
• 1837 - Harrison Gray Otis was born, soldier and journalist .
• 1840 - Per Teodor Cleve was born (d. 18 Jun 1905). Swedish chemist and geologist who discovered the elements holmium and thulium .
• 1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
• 1846 - Ira Remsen, was born (d. 4 Mar 1927). American chemist who codiscovered saccharin.
• 1846 - Many Mormons begin their migration west from Nauvoo, Illinois.
• 1846 - Charles Beresford, was born,British Admiral and Member of Parliament (d. 1919) .
• 1862 - Francia, España y el Reino Unido, por un lado, y el presidente mexicano, Benito Juárez, por otro, firman el "Convenio de Soledad".
• 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 - Fritz Klimsch, was born, German sculptor.
• 1870 - Anaheim, California is incorporated.
• 1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City).
• 1873 - Amadeo de Saboya abdica de la Corona de España.
• 1874 - Patricio Peralta Ramos funda la ciudad de Mar del Plata.
• 1879 - Muere el pintor, litógrafo y escultor Honoré Daumier.
• 1880 - Manuel Azaña Díaz, nacimiento de, presidente de la II República Española.
• 1890 - Boris Pasternak, was born (d. 30 May 1960), poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958. Pasternak became an international symbol of the incorruptible moral courage of an artist in conflict with his political environment. Author of the famous "Doctor Zhivago".
• 1891 - Sofya Kovalevskaya dies (b. 15 Jan 1850). Mathematician and novelist who made valuable contributions to the theory of differential equations.
• 1893 - Jimmy Durante, was born, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillean (d. 1980) .
• 1894 - Harold Macmillan, was born, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986) .
• 1897 - John Franklin Enders, was born (d. 8 Sep 1985). American viologist, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954, with Frederick C. Robbins and Thomas H. Weller for his part in cultivating the poliomyelitis virus in nonnervous-tissue cultures (1949), a preliminary step to the development of the polio vaccine.
• 1897 - Dame Judith Anderson, was born, actress (d. 1992) .
• 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, was born, author (d. 1956) ("Three Penny Opera" ; "Mother Courage." "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are".
• 1901 - Stella Adler, was born, acting teacher (d. 1992) .
• 1901 - Richard Dagobert Brauer was born (d. 17 Apr 1977). German-American mathematician and educator, a pioneer in the development of algebra theory.
• 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, was born in China, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956, with John Bardeen and William B. Shockley, for investigating semiconductors and the development of the transistor.
• 1904 - John A. Roche, dies, mayor of Chicago, IL (b. 1844) .
• 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., was born, actor (d. 1973) .
• 1910 - José Canalejas ocupa por primera vez la presidencia del Consejo de Ministros.
• 1912 - Barão do Rio Branco, nascimento de, diplomata e empresário brasileiro.
• 1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, dies (b. 27 May 1845). (also spelled Roentgen). German physicist who was a recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901, for his discovery of X rays, which heralded the age of modern physics and revolutionized diagnostic medicin.
• 1927- Leontyne Price, was born, American soprano.
• 1927 - La provincia de San Juan promulga una nueva Constitución que establece por primera vez en Argentina en voto femenino .
• 1930 - El general Miguel Primo de Rivera abandona España.
• 1930 - Robert Wagner, was born, actor (Hart to Hart, The Mountain, The Towering Inferno, Titanic, It Takes a Thief, Pink Panther, Midway) .
• 1931- Thomas Bernhard, was born, author (d. 1989) .
• 1931- New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
• 1932 - Edgar Wallace, dies, novelist, screenwriter of King Kong .
• 1932 - Branko Lustig, was born, Croat film producer .
• 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.
• 1934 - Nace el sociólogo Salvador Giner San Julián.
• 1939 - Pope Pius XI dies, (b. 1857) .
• 1939 - Roberta Flack, was born, singer (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Feel Like Making Love, Killing Me Softly With His Song) .
• 1941 - Michael Apted, was born, director .
• 1942 -Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
• 1943 - Frank-Patrick Steckel, was born, theater director .
• 1943 - Gandhi inicia una huelga de hambre contra su detención por parte de las autoridades coloniales británicas.
• 1944 - Vernor Vinge, was born, novelist .
• 1947 - Louise Arbour, was born, jurist .
• 1947 - Firma en París de los tratados de paz de las potencias aliadas con Italia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungría y Finlandia. Estonia, Letonia y Lituania quedan incorporadas a la URSS.
• 1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
• 1949 -Elections in Northern Ireland showed that at least 2/3 of the population favored continued union with Great Britain.
• 1949 - Death of a Salesman opens (Morocco Theatre in New York City).
• 1950 - Mark Spitz, was born, Olympic Games swimming 9 gold medalist (2 in 1968 + 7 in 1972) .
• 1952 - Muere Macedonio Fernández, escritor, poeta y autor de textos humorístico-filosóficos.
• 1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
• 1955 - Greg Norman, was born, golfer .
• 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, dies, author (b. 1867) .
• 1958 - Manuel Idígoras Fuentes es elegido presidente de Guatemala .
• 1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, dies, Croatian Cardinal (b. 1898) .
• 1961 - George Stephanopoulos,was born, political consultant, commentator
• 1961 - Alexander Payne, was born, director .
• 1962 - Cliff Burton, was born, musician (Metallica)
• 1962 - Bobby Czyz, was born. Polish-American boxer.
• 1962 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
• 1964 - Eugen Sänger, dies, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
• 1966 - Billy Rose, dies, composer, band leader (b. 1899) .
• 1967 - Laura Dern, was born ,actress ( Jurassic Park, Blue Velvet, Rambling Rose); daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd .
• 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1976 - Lance Berkman, was born, Major League Baseball All-Star .
• 1979 - Ross Powers, was born, American Olympic Games gold medalist for snowboarding
• 1980 - César Iztúris, was born, baseball player .
• 1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
• 1981 - Leopoldo Calvo Soleto é nomeado primeiro-ministro da Espanha pelo rei Juan Carlos.
• 1982 - Das Boot opens in United States theaters.
• 1985 - Johnny Mokan, dies, professional baseball player (b 1895) .
• 1986 -The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opened in Palermo, Italy.
• 1986 - Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti flees the country to France .
• 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
• 1989 - Michael Manley torna-se primeiro ministro da Jamaica.
• 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.
• 1992 - Alex Haley, dies, author (b. 1921); author of “Roots” and co-writer of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” died in Seattle at age 70 .
• 1993 - Fred Hollows, dies, ophthalmologist .
• 1996 -In Algeria two car bombs killed 17 and wounded 93 in the capital.
• 1996 - Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the first game of their match.
• 1997 - From Bolivia it was reported that heavy rains have destroyed the homes and crops of tens of thousands of farmers. The rains were the heaviest in 3 decades .
• 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.
• 1998-Monica Lewinsky's mother, Marcia Lewis, testified before the grand jury investigating her daughter's alleged affair with President Clinton.
• 1999 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10.
• 1999 - In Syria Pres. Hafez Assad (68) was elected to a 5th 7-year term.
• 1999- Indemnización millonaria de una tabaquera norteamericana a una fumadora enferma de cáncer.
• 1999 - Famosa pelas janelas, quiosques e telhados de Lisboa que pintou, Maluda morreu neste dia .
• 2000 -At Stansted, England, 9 hijackers surrendered and released all hostages of the Afghan jetliner. Police arrested 21 [22] people and recovered arms. Half the hostages requested asylum.
• 2000 -In Yemen tribesmen released Kenneth White (54), an American oil executive, who was kidnapped a month ago .
• 2001 -In Algeria assailants killed at least 27 people near Berrouaghia. Half of the dead were children .
• 2002 - Harold Furth, dies, American leader in plasma physics and nuclear fusion .
• 2003 - Curt Hennig, dies, professional wrestler .
• 2003 - Clark MacGregor, dies, United States Congressman .
• 2003 - Al Ruffo, dies, mayor of San Jose, California .
• 2003 - Ron Ziegler dies, press secetary to Richard Nixon