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The 10t o Februar is the 41t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 324 days ti come (325 in lowp years).
Events
1840: Queen Victoria an Albert, Prince Consort
2006: Winter Olympic Gemmes Openin Ceremony in Turin
- 1258 - Baghdad faws tae the Mongols.
- 1306 - Robert the Bruce kills John III Comyn, Laird o Badenoch in Dumfries.
- 1567 - Murther o Henry Stuart, Laird Darnley, husband o Mary, Queen o Scots.
- 1763 - The Treaty o Paris ends the Seven Years' War.
- 1840 - Weddin o Queen Victoria an Albert, Prince Consort.
- 1910 - French passenger ship "General Chanzy" is tossed against a reef in a storm. It sinks, killin 155 fowk.
- 1920 - North Schleswig chooses tae become pairt o Denmark in a referendum.
- 1939 - Spaingie Ceevil War: Naitionalists finish their conquest o Catalonie.
- 1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam.
- 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev an Helmut Kohl meet for talks.
- 1996 - Supercomputer Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov at chess.
- 2005 - A dam break at Shadi Kor, Pakistan, kills atween 140 an 500 fowk.
- 2005 - Charles, Prince o Wales an Camilla Parker-Bowles propale their intention tae get mairit.
- 2006 - Stairt o the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
- 2007 - Barack Obama propales his intention tae run for Preses o the Unitit States.
- 2008 - The Namdaemun laundmairk in Seoul, Sooth Korea, is heavily damaged bi fire.
- 2013 - A stampede at the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, Indie, kills 36 fowk.
- 2013 - Association fitbaa: Nigerie wins its 3rd Africa Cup o Naitions teetle, defeatin Burkina Faso 1-0.
- 2015 - Australie is invitit tae join the Eurovision Sang Contest.
- 2020 - Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer propales her demission as leader o Germany's Christian Democratic Union.
- 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o fowk in Scotland gien a dose o the COVID-19 vaccine gets tae 1 million.
Births
Harold Macmillan
Laura Dern
- 1859 - Alexandre Millerand, Preses o Fraunce (d. 1943)
- 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Roushie writer (d. 1960)
- 1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1986)
- 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (d. 1956)
- 1899 - Cevdet Sunay, 5t Preses o Turkey (d. 1982)
- 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, American theoretical pheesicist (d. 1987)
- 1903 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrick fitbawer (d. 1939)
- 1910 - Dominique Pire, Belgian friar (d. 1969)
- 1927 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
- 1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor
- 1932 - Barrie Ingham, Inglis actor (d. 2015)
- 1950 - Mark Spitz, American swimmer
- 1952 - Lee Hsien Loong, Prime meenister o Singapore
- 1962 - Cliff Burton, American muisicker (d. 1986)
- 1963 - Philip Glenister, Inglis actor
- 1966 - Natalie Bennett, Australian-Inglis politeecian
- 1967 - Laura Dern, American actress
- 1974 - Elizabeth Banks, American actress
- 1976 - Keeley Hawes, Inglis actress
- 1981 - Holly Willoughby, Inglis telly presenter
- 1982 - Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
- 1986 - Radamel Falcao, Colombie fitbawer
- 1986 - Viktor Troicki, Serbie tennis player
- 1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress
- 1997 - Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
Daiths
- 1306 - John III Comyn, Laird o Badenoch, Scots nobleman
- 1567 - Henry Stuart, Laird Darnley, husband o Mary, Queen o Scots (b. 1545)
- 1752 - Henriette o Fraunce (b. 1727)
- 1755 - Montesqieu, French writer (b. 1689)
- 1829 - Pape Leo XII (b. 1760)
- 1837 - Alexander Pushkin, Roushie writer (b. 1799)
- 1879 - Honoré Daumier, French penter (b. 1808)
- 1918 - Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
- 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian politeecian (b. 1833)
- 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German pheesicist (b. 1845)
- 1939 - Pape Pius XI (b. 1857)
- 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American writer (b. 1867)
- 2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
- 2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwricht (b. 1915)
- 2008 - Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2014 - Shirley Temple, American actress an diplomat (b. 1928)
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