February 10

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.
1881 - French opera Les contes d'Hoffmann is first performed in Paris.
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
1940 - Kathryn Mullen, American puppeteer, actress and voice actress
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 - Gunter Schroter, 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)
Days of the year