Notable Historical Events on February 10th
February 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
60 |
St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta |
1098 |
Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch |
1355 |
The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. |
1525 |
Albert of Prussia pledges a personal oath to Sigismund I and is invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs |
1535 |
12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets |
1549 |
Tomé de Sousa appointed governor general of Brazil |
1635 |
Academie Francaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu) |
1676 |
Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass |
1713 |
Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31] |
1716 |
Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France |
1720 |
Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England |
1746 |
English Pelham government resigns |
1749 |
10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published |
1763 |
Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain |
1774 |
Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit |
1794 |
Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres |
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. |
1807 |
US Coast Survey authorized by Congress |
1814 |
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert, the French beat the Russians |
1824 |
Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru |
1846 |
Beginning of Mormon march to west US |
1846 |
British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India |
1855 |
US citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship |
1859 |
Gen Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny |
1860 |
John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres |
1862 |
Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms |
1863 |
1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia |
1866 |
Dutch government of Frans van der Putte forms |
1868 |
Conservatives & military seize Convention Hall in Florida |
1870 |
City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time) |
1870 |
YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC) |
1878 |
Peace of Zanjón |
1878 |
Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres |
1879 |
1st electric arc light used (California Theater) |
1879 |
Henry Morton Stanley departs for the Congo |
1880 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage |
1881 |
Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman," premieres in Paris |
1882 |
Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St Petersburg |
1883 |
Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, kills 71 |
1890 |
Around 11 million acres ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement |
1897 |
NY Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" |
1899 |
-39°F (-39°C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature) |
1899 |
US-Spain peace treaty signed by Pres McKinley. US gets PR & Guam |
1900 |
Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec) |
1904 |
Japan and Russia declare war |
1906 |
British battleship HMS Dreadnought launched after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with revolutionary design |
1906 |
State of siege proclaimed in Zululand |
1908 |
Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
1912 |
Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG |
1913 |
Edward Sheldons "Romance," premieres in NYC |
1914 |
In accordance with the understanding reached by General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma Gandhi, 60 passive resistance prisoners are released from the Pietermaritzburg Prison; 40 passive resisters are released in Durban, 8 in Newcastle and 11 in Port Elizabeth |
1915 |
US President Wilson warns Germany that the US will hold it 'to a strict accountability' for 'property endangered or lives lost' |
1915 |
US President Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans |
1916 |
Military conscription begins in Britain |
1917 |
Johanna Westerdijk installed as Neth 1st female professor |
1920 |
Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball |
1920 |
Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea. |
1923 |
Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company |
1923 |
Owen Davis' "Icebound," premieres in NYC |
1923 |
SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of the Ruhr |
1924 |
Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Wash Senators) |
1925 |
1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind |
1925 |
AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year |
1926 |
Building of Olympic Stadium Amsterdam, begins |
1927 |
Pres Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference |
1929 |
Bishop Stephen Alencastre, dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu |
1930 |
Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress |
1931 |
New Delhi becomes capital of India |
1931 |
Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Harts premieres in NYC |
1933 |
-54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record) |
1933 |
Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC) |
1933 |
Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship |
1933 |
Hitler proclaims end of Marxism |
1933 |
Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed |
1934 |
1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine |
1934 |
Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp |
1934 |
Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount," premieres in NYC |
1934 |
Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier" |
1934 |
Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in NYC |
1935 |
1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service |
1935 |
Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new electric locomotive |
1937 |
Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400m (5:14.2) |
1938 |
King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga |
1940 |
"In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1 |
1940 |
Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM |
1940 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
1940 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner |
1941 |
1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA |
1941 |
Anti-nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands |
1942 |
Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" |
1943 |
"Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination |
1943 |
British 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia |
1943 |
Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau |
1944 |
Belgian resistance fighter and author Kamiel van Baelen arrested |
1944 |
U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland |
1945 |
"Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1 |
1946 |
Charles "Lucky" Luciano is deported to Italy, and never returns to the United States |
1947 |
Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia |
1947 |
Netherlands Radio Union forms |
1947 |
Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland |
1947 |
WW II peace treaties signed |
1948 |
Greek Gen Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki |
1949 |
Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC |
1951 |
"John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21 |
1953 |
Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Westwood & Demmy GRB |
1953 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer & John Nicks of GRB |
1953 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA |
1953 |
Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA |
1954 |
Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam |
1954 |
Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy GRB |
1954 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN |
1954 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch GER |
1954 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US |
1956 |
"My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV |
1957 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
1957 |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms |
1959 |
Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone" |
1959 |
Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265 |
1960 |
"Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 perfs |
1960 |
Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner," premieres |
1961 |
AFL's LA Chargers move to San Diego |
1961 |
Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power |
1961 |
Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres |
1962 |
Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA |
1962 |
USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel |
1963 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
1963 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon |
1963 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz |
1964 |
Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager sinks after colliding with aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, killing 82 |
1964 |
WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
Harmel government in Belgium resigns |
1967 |
25th Amendment (US Presidential Disability & Succession) ratified |
1968 |
"Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3 |
1968 |
Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France |
1969 |
LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94 |
1970 |
26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record) |
1970 |
Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France) |
1971 |
American Mensa Ltd incorporates in New York |
1971 |
Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (NY Yankees) |
1971 |
John Guares "House of Blue Leaves," premieres in NYC |
1971 |
Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa |
1972 |
BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings |
1972 |
Ras al Khaima joins United Arab Emirates |
1972 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972 |
Two British soldiers are killed in a land mine attack near Cullyhanna, County Armagh; An IRA member is shot dead during an exchange of gunfire with RUC officers |
1973 |
2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
1973 |
83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die |
1973 |
Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 v NZ Dunedin |
1974 |
"Gigi" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances |
1974 |
Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic |
1974 |
Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out |
1974 |
Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17) |
1974 |
Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London |
1975 |
William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1975 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees to a truce and ceasefire with the British government and the Northern Ireland Office; Seven "incident centres" are established in nationalist areas to monitor the ceasefire and the response of the security forces |
1977 |
"Party with Comden & Green" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 perfs |
1977 |
Bomb explosion in Moscow metro |
1977 |
Jonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx NY named in honor of Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid (1976) |
1978 |
Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA |
1979 |
"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1 |
1979 |
Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed |
1980 |
Ianford Wilsons "Talley's Folly," premieres in NYC |
1980 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
1981 |
33rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at LA |
1981 |
8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton |
1981 |
Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249 |
1982 |
28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec |
1983 |
Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament |
1985 |
Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82) |
1985 |
35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana |
1985 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission |
1985 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
1985 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1986 |
"John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released posthumously |
1987 |
Philippine troops murder 17 civilians in Lupao Massacre |
1988 |
Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails |
1988 |
3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in SF strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) |
1989 |
Celtic KC Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame |
1989 |
Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV |
1989 |
Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis |
1989 |
Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party (Democrats) |
1989 |
Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days |
1989 |
Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff |
1989 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1989 |
To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court |
1990 |
6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome) |
1990 |
Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water |
1990 |
South African President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on Feb 11th |
1990 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
1991 |
"La Bete" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 24 performances |
1991 |
41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte |
1991 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament |
1991 |
Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54) |
1991 |
Lithuania votes for independence from USSR |
1991 |
NBA All Star Game at Charlotte NC |
1992 |
"Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV |
1992 |
Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA |
1992 |
Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana |
1993 |
Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59) |
1993 |
US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia |
1993 |
"Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people |
1995 |
Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA |
1995 |
Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m) |
1995 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek |
1996 |
IBM computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov |
1997 |
13th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins |
1997 |
5th ESPY Awards: Michael Johnson, Amy Van Dyken Lobo win |
1997 |
Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU) |
1997 |
O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages |
1997 |
Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR |
1997 |
Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991 |
1998 |
AOL raises monthly flat rate internet access from $19.95 to $21.95 |
1998 |
Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery |
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 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 31-28 |
2008 |
The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea. |
2008 |
50th Grammy Awards: Rehab, Amy Winehouse wins |
2008 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 42-30 |
2013 |
Nigeria defeat Burkina Faso 1-0 to win the football 2013 Africa Cup of Nations |
2013 |
5 people are killed by a falling lifeboat from the cruise ship Thomson Majesty in the Canary islands |
2013 |
66 British Academy Awards: Argo, Ben Affleck, Daniel Day-Lewis and Emmanuelle Riva win |
2013 |
55th Grammy Awards: Somebody That I Used To Know (Goyte), We are Young (Fun), and Babel (Mumford & Sons) win |
2013 |
36 people are killed and 39 are injured in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad, India |
2016 |
China Reports 1st Case of Imported Zika Virus |
2016 |
Ryan Reynolds named 'Sexiest Dad Alive!' by People |
2016 |
North Korea's Rocket Launch Frays Ties Between South Korea and China |
2016 |
Senate approves new North Korea sanctions |
2016 |
Carly Fiorina ends presidential bid |
2017 |
Flynn Is Said to Have Talked to Russians About Sanctions Before Trump Took Office |
2017 |
US appeals court upholds suspension of Trump travel ban |
2017 |
Trump tells Xi Jinping: US will honor 'One China policy' |
2017 |
Japan PM Shinzo Abe arrives in US for Trump talks |
2018 |
North Korea's Kim invites South Korean president for summit: South Korea |
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