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10 Feb 1098
Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
10 Feb 1355
The St. Scholasticas Day riot breaks out in Oxford England leaving 62 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
10 Feb 1535
12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
10 Feb 1549
Tom de Sousa appointed governor general of Brazil
10 Feb 1635
The Acadmie franaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
10 Feb 1676
Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
10 Feb 1713
Netherlands & Britain sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OSJan 31]
10 Feb 1716
Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
10 Feb 1763
Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War surrendering Canada to Britain
10 Feb 1798
Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome (15th February proclaim a Roman Republic 20th February take Pope Pius VI prisoner)
10 Feb 1837
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin is fatally injured in a duel with French officer Georges-Charles de Heeckeren dAnths (129 OS)
10 Feb 1846
British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon India
10 Feb 1855
US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
10 Feb 1863
1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane Virginia
10 Feb 1868
Conservatives & military seize Convention Hall in Florida
10 Feb 1870
YWCA (Young Womens Christian Association) forms (NYC)
10 Feb 1878
Pact of Zanjn signed between Cubans rebels and the Spanish bringing the 10 Years War to an end
10 Feb 1879
1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
10 Feb 1880
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
10 Feb 1881
Jacques Offenbachs opera Les Contes dHoffman premieres in Paris
10 Feb 1882
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakovs opera Snyegurochka premieres in St Petersburg
10 Feb 1883
Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisconsin kills 71
10 Feb 1890
Around 11 million acres ceded to US by Sioux Indians then opened for settlement
10 Feb 1897
NY Times begins using slogan All the News Thats Fit to Print
10 Feb 1898
Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish-American War is signed by President McKinley US acquires Philippines Puerto Rico & Guam
10 Feb 1899
-39F (-39C) Milligan Ohio (state lowest record temperature)
10 Feb 1900
Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec)
10 Feb 1906
British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design
10 Feb 1912
Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
10 Feb 1915
US President Woodrow Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans
10 Feb 1917
Johanna Westerdijk installed as the Netherlands 1st female professor
10 Feb 1918
In Finland General Carl G. Von Mannerheim gathers an army known as the White Guard to mount a counter revolution against the Bolshevik Red Guard
10 Feb 1920
Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
10 Feb 1920
Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea
10 Feb 1923
Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
10 Feb 1923
SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of the Ruhr
10 Feb 1924
Bucky Harris at 27 becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators)
10 Feb 1925
1st waterless gas storage tank put into service Michigan City Indiana
10 Feb 1925
AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year
10 Feb 1929
Bishop Stephen Alencastre dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu
10 Feb 1930
Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
10 Feb 1932
Sweden goes 1-2 in the 18k cross country event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics Sven Utterstrm wins gold ahead of team mate Axel Wikstrm
10 Feb 1933
-54F (-48C) Seneca Oregon (state record)
10 Feb 1933
Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC)
10 Feb 1933
Mutiny on 7 Provinces ends (began Feb 4th) 23 killed
10 Feb 1934
1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
10 Feb 1934
Byrd souvenir sheet issued NYC 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
10 Feb 1934
Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Steins opera Four Saints in Three Acts premieres in NYC
10 Feb 1935
1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service
10 Feb 1935
Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new electric locomotive
10 Feb 1937
Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400m (514.2)
10 Feb 1938
King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
10 Feb 1941
1st highway post office makes 1st trip Washington D.C. to Harrisonburg Virginia
10 Feb 1941
Anti-Nazi Het Parool begins publishing in Netherlands
10 Feb 1942
Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of Chattanooga Choo Choo
10 Feb 1943
Manifesto of Algerian People calls for equality & self-determination
10 Feb 1943
British 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
10 Feb 1943
Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau
10 Feb 1944
Belgian resistance fighter and author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
10 Feb 1947
Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
10 Feb 1947
Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
10 Feb 1948
Greek Gen Markos guerrilla army bombs Saloniki
10 Feb 1953
Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Westwood & Demmy GRB
10 Feb 1953
Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer & John Nicks of GRB
10 Feb 1953
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA
10 Feb 1953
Mens Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA
10 Feb 1954
Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean WestwoodLawrence Demmy GRB
10 Feb 1954
Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden of Canada
10 Feb 1954
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch GER
10 Feb 1954
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US
10 Feb 1955
The US Navy evacuate 1000s from Tachen Islands in the Pacific
10 Feb 1956
My Friend Flicka premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
10 Feb 1957
Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
10 Feb 1959
Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes Lonely but not alone
10 Feb 1960
Unsinkable Molly Brown closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 performances
10 Feb 1960
Charles Ives Lincoln the Great Commoner premieres
10 Feb 1961
Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
10 Feb 1962
Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (358.9) in LA
10 Feb 1962
USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
10 Feb 1963
US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon
10 Feb 1963
US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz
10 Feb 1964
Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager sinks after colliding with aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne killing 82
10 Feb 1964
WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
10 Feb 1967
25th Amendment (US Presidential Disability & Succession) ratified
10 Feb 1968
Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal Grenoble France
10 Feb 1970
26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
10 Feb 1970
Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel at Val dIsere France killing 40 Belgian French & German youths
10 Feb 1971
Bill White becomes 1st African American baseball announcer (NY Yankees)
10 Feb 1971
John Guares House of Blue Leaves premieres in NYC
10 Feb 1971
Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
10 Feb 1971
Tapestry second album by Carole King is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1972)
10 Feb 1972
BBC bans Give Ireland Back to the Irish by Wings
10 Feb 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
10 Feb 1973
83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes 40 die
10 Feb 1973
Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 v NZ Dunedin
10 Feb 1974
Gigi closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances
10 Feb 1974
Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us womens marathon (25517)
10 Feb 1974
Silver futures hit record 4.81 an ounce in London
10 Feb 1975
William Judy Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
10 Feb 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
10 Feb 1977
Party with Comden & Green opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 performances
10 Feb 1977
Jonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx NY named in honor of Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid (1976)
10 Feb 1978
Frank C. Carlucci succeeds John F. Blake as deputy director of CIA
10 Feb 1978
U.S. premiere of Blue Collar Paul Schraders first film direction
10 Feb 1979
Allan Border is named 12th man for Australia only Test Cricket he misses
10 Feb 1980
Ianford Wilsons Talleys Folly premieres in NYC
10 Feb 1981
33rd NHL All-Star Game The Forum Inglewood Campbell Conference beats Wales Conference 4-1 MVP Mike Liut St. Louis Blues G
10 Feb 1981
8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
10 Feb 1981
Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Crickets top wicket-taker with 249
10 Feb 1982
28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands Bromont Quebec
10 Feb 1983
Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament
10 Feb 1985
Andrea Schne skates ladies world record 5 km (732.82)
10 Feb 1985
35th NBA All-Star Game Hoosier Dome Indianapolis West beats East 140-129 MVP Ralph Sampson Houston Rockets C
10 Feb 1985
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
10 Feb 1987
Philippine troops murder 17 civilians in Lupao Massacre
10 Feb 1988
Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails
10 Feb 1988
3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Armys ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
10 Feb 1989
Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting St Louis
10 Feb 1989
Ron Brown chosen 1st African American chairman of a major US party (Democrats)
10 Feb 1989
Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days
10 Feb 1989
Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottinghams 1st black sheriff
10 Feb 1989
To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport in a NJ court
10 Feb 1989
39th Berlin International Film Festival Rain Main wins the Golden Bear
10 Feb 1990
6th Largest wrestling crowd (63900-Tokyo Dome)
10 Feb 1990
Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
10 Feb 1991
La Bete opens at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC for 24 performances
10 Feb 1991
Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (1343.54)
10 Feb 1870
City of Anaheim in California incorporates for the 1st time but disincorporates after two years as the tax burden was too high
10 Feb 1898
Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish-American War is signed by President McKinley US acquires Philippines Puerto Rico and Guam
10 Feb 1931
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Harts musical Americas Sweetheart premieres on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre NYC
10 Feb 1951
John and Marsha by Stan Freberg a parody of daytime soap operas which had only two voices repeating each others names peaks at 21 in the USA
10 Feb 1968
American 2-time world champion Peggy Fleming comfortably wins Olympic womens figure skating gold medal at the Grenoble Winter Games
10 Feb 1973
Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad scores 201 runs in a match against New Zealand
10 Feb 1977
Jonathan Netanyahu Lane in the Bronx New York named in honor of the Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid in Uganda in 1976
10 Feb 1984
Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins a career 4th Olympic gold medal when he takes out the 30k event in Sarajevo 3 gold in Lake Placid 1980
10 Feb 1989
39th Berlin International Film Festival Rain Man wins the Golden Bear
10 Feb 1990
Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
10 Feb 1993
Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (155.59)
10 Feb 1863
1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane of Virginia
10 Feb 1932
Sweden goes 1-2 in the 18k cross country event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics Sven Utterstrm wins gold ahead of teammate Axel Wikstrm
10 Feb 1961
Walter Pistons 7th Symphony commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra premieres under direction of Eugene Ormandy wins Pulitzer Prize
10 Feb 1549
Tom de Sousa appointed as the 1st Governor-General of Brazil
10 Feb 1798
French army led by Louis Alexandre Berthier captures Rome
10 Feb 1842
Moreton Bay Penal Colony abolished and opened for free settlement (modern city of Brisbane Australia) [1]
10 Feb 1862
Julius Benedict and Dion Boucicaults opera Lily of Killarney premieres at Convent Garden in London
10 Feb 1954
World Figure Skating Championship at Oslo Ice Dancing - won by Great Britains team of Jean Westwood and Lawrence Demmy
10 Feb 1954
World Figure Skating Championship at Oslo Pairs - won by Canadian team of Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden
10 Feb 1954
World Figure Skating Championship in Oslo Ladies - won by West Germanys Gundi Busch
10 Feb 1954
World Figure Skating Championship in Oslo Men - won by American Hayes Alan Jenkins
10 Feb 1985
Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-E mission
10 Feb 1860
Johannes Brahms orchestral music piece Serenade No. 2 in A premieres in Hamburg
10 Feb 1870
The Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA) forms in NYC
10 Feb 1915
US President Woodrow Wilson warns Germany that the US will hold it to a strict accountability for property endangered or lives lost
10 Feb 1918
In Finland General Carl Gustaf Emil Von Mannerheim gathers an army known as the White Guard to mount a counter revolution against the Bolshevik Red Guard
10 Feb 1945
Rum and Coca-Cola by the Andrews Sisters hits 1
10 Feb 1977
Revival of musical revue A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green opens at Morosco Theatre later transferring to the Little Theatre NYC runs for 92 performances
10 Feb 1635
The Acadmie franaise formed in Paris by Cardinal Richelieu
10 Feb 1676
King Philips War a force of 1500 Wampanoag Nipmuc and Narragansett Indians killing over 30 men and destroying buildings in Lancaster Massachusetts
10 Feb 1763
Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War France surrenders Canada to Great Britain
10 Feb 1971
John Guares stage comedy House of Blue Leaves opens at the Truck and Warehouse Theatre NYC runs for 337 performances
10 Feb 1975
(William) Judy Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
10 Feb 1635
Playwright William Davenants court masque The Temple of Love is performed at Whitehall featuring Queen Henrietta Maria
10 Feb 1676
King Philips War a force of 1500 Wampanoag Nipmuc and Narragansett Indians kill over 30 men and destroy buildings in Lancaster Massachusetts
10 Feb 1933
The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company of New York City delivers the 1st singing telegram [1]
10 Feb 1978
Frank C. Carlucci succeeds John F. Blake as deputy director of the CIA
10 Feb 1995
Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)
10 Feb 1996
A bomb explodes in Docklands area of London ending the 17-month ceasefire James McArdle is eventually found guilty and jailed for 25 years
10 Feb 1997
5th ESPY Awards Michael Johnson Amy Van Dyken Lobo win
10 Feb 1997
Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
10 Feb 1997
Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991
10 Feb 1998
AOL raises monthly flat rate internet access from 19.95 to 21.95
10 Feb 1998
Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
10 Feb 1998
Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon the law
10 Feb 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.
10 Feb 2008
The Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun the first National Treasure of South Korea.
10 Feb 2013
36 people are killed and 39 are injured in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad India
10 Feb 2013
5 people are killed by a falling lifeboat from the cruise ship Thomson Majesty in the Canary islands
10 Feb 2013
55th Grammy Awards Somebody That I Used To Know (Goyte) We Are Young (fun) and Babel (Mumford & Sons) win
10 Feb 1098
Crusaders defeat Prince Ridwan of Aleppo at Antioch
10 Feb 1535
Twelve nude Anabaptists run through the streets of Amsterdam
10 Feb 1716
Jacobite and Scottish pretender to the throne James Francis Edward Stuart returns to France
10 Feb 1763
Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War France agrees to surrender Canada to Great Britain
10 Feb 1794
Joseph Haydns 99th Symphony in E premieres in London England
10 Feb 1906
British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days and renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design
10 Feb 1948
American composer Leroy Anderson completes his orchestral work Sleigh Ride which becomes a worldwide holiday favorite
10 Feb 1960
Charles Ives composition Lincoln the Great Commoner premieres
10 Feb 1969
Louisiana State Universitys Pete Maravich scores 66 despite his team losing to Tulane 101-94
10 Feb 1971
American Mensa Ltd incorporates in New York City
10 Feb 1981
8 killed and 198 injured by fire at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada a busboy is later convicted of arson and murder and sentenced to life in prison [1]
10 Feb 1989
WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition and not a sport in a New Jersey court to gain deregulation
10 Feb 1992
Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
10 Feb 2011
Jerry Sloan resigns as head coach of the Utah Jazz