On this day in History - Feb. 10

• 1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and vernacular poet, dies (b.1071).
• 1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem dies (b. 1130).
• 1242 - Emperor Shijo of Japan dies (b. 1231)
• 1258 - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing 10,000 citizens.
• 1278 - Margaret II dies. Countess of Flanders.
• 1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot broke out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
• 1499 - Thomas Platter was born (d. 1582). Swiss humanist.
• 1524 - Albrecht Giese IV was born (d. 1580). German politician and diplomat.
• 1542 - Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery).
• 1567 - Lorde Darnley, segundo marido de Mary, Rainha dos Escoceses, é assassinado.
• 1576 - Guilielmus Xylander was born (d. 1532). German classical scholar.
• 1609 - Sir John Suckling was born (d. 1642). English poet.
• 1635 - The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite.
• 1685 - Aaron Hill was born (d. 1750). English writer.
• 1686 - William Dugdale dies (b. 1605). English antiquarian.
• 1720 - Edmund Halley es nombrado astrónomo real de Inglaterra .
• 1722 - Bartholomew Roberts dies. English pirate.
• 1755 - Muere el escritor y político Charles-Louis de Secondat, teórico de la democracia representativa.
• 1755 - Montesquieu dies (b. 1689). French writer and philosopher.
• 1758 - Thomas Ripley dies. English architect.
• 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.
• 1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger dies (b. 1702). German theologian.
• 1785 - Claude-Louis Navier was born (d. 1936). French physicist.
• 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 defending his wife's honour. 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 (d. 1919). British admiral and politician.
• 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.
• 1864 - The British conquered the Sikhs in northwestern India in the Battle of Sobraon, the most decisive engagement of the First Sikh War.
• 1865 - Heinrich Lenz dies (b. 1804). German physicist.
• 1866 - Adela Gargollo de Jiménez was born (d. 1947). Costa Rican entrepreneur
• 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 - W. C. Fields was born in Philadelphia (d. 1946). American actor.
• 1879 - Honoré Daumier dies (b. 1808). French realist illustrator, litographer, painter and sculptor.
• 1880 - Manuel Azaña Díaz was born. President of II Spanish Republic.
• 1887 - John Franklin Enders was born (d. 1985). American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1890 - Boris Pasternak, was born (d. 30 May 1960). Russian poet and writer, 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.
• 1892 - Alan Hale Sr. was born (d. 1950). American actor.
• 1893 - Bill Tilden was born (d. 1953). American tennis player.
• 1893 - Jimmy Durante was born (d. 1980). American actor, singer, comedian and vaudevillean.
• 1894 - Harold Macmillan was born (d. 1986). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1897 - John Franklin Enders, was born (d. 8 Sep 1985). American virologist, 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 (d. 1992). Australian actress.
• 1898 - Bertolt Brecht was born (d. 1956). German author ("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 (d. 1992). American actress and acting teacher.
• 1901 - Richard Dagobert Brauer was born (d. 17 Apr 1977). German-American mathematician and educator, a pioneer in the development of algebra theory.
• 1901 - Mariblanca Sabás Alomá was born in Santiago (d. 1983). Cuban writer, poet and journalistEscritora, poeta y periodista.
• 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain was born in China. American 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.
• 1903 - Mathias Sindelar was born (d. 23 Jan 1939). Austrian soccer player, one of the greatest footballers of his generation and a genius of a playmaker. Nicknamed der Papierene on account of his lean, delicate stature, and ‘The Mozart of Football’
• 1904 - John Farrow was born (d. 1963). American film director.
• 1904 - John A. Roche dies (b. 1844). Mayor of Chicago, IL.
• 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr. was born (d. 1973). American actor.
• 1906 - Erik Rhodes was born (d. 1990). American actor.
• 1910 - Jorge Brum do Canto was born (d. 1994). Portuguese film director.
• 1910 - José Canalejas ocupa por primera vez la presidencia del Consejo de Ministros.
• 1910 - Georges Pire was born (d. 1969). Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1912 - Barão do Rio Branco dies (b. 20 Apr 1845). Brazilian politician, diplomat, journalist and historian.
• 1912 - Joseph Lister dies (b. 1827). British surgeon.
• 1914 - Larry Adler was born (d. 2001). American musician.
• 1917 - John William Waterhouse dies (b. 1849). Italian-born artist.
• 1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan dies (b. 1842).
• 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta dies. Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta dies (b. 1833). Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1920 - Alex Comfort was born (d. 2000). British physician and writer.
• 1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen (also spelled Roentgen) dies (b. 27 May 1845). 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.
• 1926 - Danny Blanchflower was born (d. 1993). Northern Irish footballer and football manager.
• 1926 - Carlos Gonzaga was born. Brazilian singer.
• 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.
• 1929 - Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu.
• 1929 - Jerry Goldsmith was born (d. 2004). American composer
• 1930 - Robert Wagner was born. American actor.
• 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 (d. 1989). Austrian author .
• 1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
• 1932 - Edgar Wallace dies (b. 1875). English novelist and screenwriter ( King Kong) .
• 1932 - Branko Lustig was born. Croatian 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.
• 1934 - Fleur Adcock was born. New Zealand poet
• 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) .
• 1939 - Adrienne Clarkson was born. 26th Governor General of Canada.
• 1939 - Roberta Flack was born. American singer.
• 1941 - Michael Apted was born. British 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. American novelist.
• 1944 - Peter Allen was born (d. 1992). Australian singer and actor.
• 1944 - Frank Keating was born. American politician.
• 1947 - Louise Arbour was born. Canadian judge.
• 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.
• 1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio was born (d. 1944). Mexican politician.
• 1949 - Maxime Le Forestier was born. French singer
• 1949 - Harold Sylvester was born. American actor
• 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. American swimmer, Olympic Games: 9 gold medalist (2 in 1968 + 7 in 1972) .
• 1950 - Marcel Mauss dies (b. 1872). French sociologist.
• 1951 - Roxanne Pulitzer was born. American model.
• 1951 - Robert Iger was born. President and CEO of The Walt Disney Company
• 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. American golfer .
• 1955 - Christopher Adams was born (d. 2001). British judoka and professional wrestler.
• 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder dies (b. 1867). American author.
• 1958 - Manuel Idígoras Fuentes is elected President of Guatemala.
• 1959 - Fernando Chalana was born in Barreiro. Portuguese soccer player.
• 1960 - Aloysius Stepinac dies (b. 1898). Croatian Cardinal.
• 1960 - Robert Addie was born (d. 2003). British actor.
• 1961 - Alexander Payne was born. American film director.
• 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.
• 1963 - Silvia Plath commited suicide (b. 1932). American poet and novelist. In 1981 she was awarded with Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems
• 1964 - The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
• 1964 - Eugen Sänger dies (b. 1905). Austrian aerospace engineer
• 1966 - Billy Rose dies (b. 1899). American composer and band leader.
• 1967 - Laura Dern was born inj Los Angeles. American 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.
• 1970 - Maurren Maggie was born. Brazilian athlete.
• 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 - The German movie Das Boot opens in United States theaters.
• 1984 - David Von Erich dies (b. 1958). American professional wrestler.
• 1985 - Johnny Mokan dies (b. 1895). Ameriican professional baseball player.
• 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.
• 1990 - The spacecraft Galileo flew past Venus on its way to Jupiter.
• 1992 - In Indianapolis, Indiana boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping a Miss Black American contestant named Desiree Washington.
• 1992 - Alex Haley dies (b. 1921). American author (Roots and co-writer of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) .
• 1993 - Fred Hollows dies (b. 1929). Australian ophthalmologist .
• 1996 - In Algeria two car bombs killed 17 and wounded 93 in the capital.
• 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the first game of their match.
• 1996 - The World Trade Centre in London is partially destroyed by an PIRA bomb.
• 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 .
• 2000 - Jim Varney dies (b. 1949). American actor.
• 2001 - Abraham Beame dies (b. 1906). Mayor of New York City.
• 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 .
• 2002 - Traudl Junge dies (b. 1920). Hitler's secretary.
• 2003 - Edgar de Evia dies (b. 1910). American photographer.
• 2003 - Curt Hennig dies (b. 1958). American professional wrestler.
• 2003 - Clark MacGregor dies (b. 1922). U.S. Congressman.
• 2003 - Al Ruffo dies (b. 1908). Mayor of San Jose, California.
• 2003 - Ron Ziegler dies (b. 1939). American press secetary to Richard Nixon.
• 2003 - Hockey star Brett Hull scores his 700th NHL goal.
• 2003 - France and Belgium broke the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
• 2003 - Muslims celebrate the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha. See also Hajj.
• 2003 - Curt Hennig dies. Professional wrestler .
• 2003 - Clark MacGregor dies. United States Congressman .
• 2005 - North Korea and weapons of mass destruction: North Korea suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.
• 2005 - Arthur Miller dies (b. 1915). American playwright.
• 2006 - The 2006 Olympic Winter Games open in Turin, Italy.
• 2006 - The 2006 Super 14 Season will begin with the Blues hosting the Hurricanes in Auckland, New Zealand.