Major Events
- 60 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
- 1720 Edmond Halley appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory
- 1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, France surrenders Canada to Great Britain
- 1824 Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
- 1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design
- 1952 India holds its first general election, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power
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Feb 10 in Film & TV
- 1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court
- 1993 "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
Feb 10 in Music
- 1942 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra awarded the 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
Feb 10 in Sport
Did You Know?
IBM chess-playing computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Garry Kasparov
Boris Pasternak
Harold Macmillan
Bertolt Brecht
Walter Houser Brattain
Lee Hsien Loong
Jimmy Durante
Robert Wagner
Laura Dern
Elizabeth Banks
Emma Roberts
Chloë Grace Moretz
Leontyne Price
Roberta Flack
Bill Tilden
Allie Reynolds
Mark Spitz
Greg Norman
Justin Gatlin
Fun Fact About February 10
First "Tom and Jerry" cartoon "Puss Gets the Boot" created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera is released to theatres by MGM
Famous Weddings
- 1840 British Queen Victoria (20) marries her cousin Albert (20) of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later the Prince Consort at St James' Palace
- 1858 US President Millard Fillmore (58) weds Caroline Carmichael (43) in Albany, New York
- 1863 P. T. Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren, both midgets, in NYC
Famous Divorces
- 1964 Billy Rose and Joyce Mathews divorce again
- 2011 Former Playboy model Camille Donatacci (42) divorces "Frasier" actor-comedian Kelsey Grammer (56) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage
More February 10 Weddings
Temür Khan
Wilhelm Röntgen
Edgar Wallace
Pius XI
Arthur Miller
Shirley TempleArticles, Photos and Quiz
Why 'SuperMac' was Banished From Number 10
War hero, Edwardian gentleman, academic, friend of the Kennedys, former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was born on this day.
February 10, 1894
1st Ever Gold Record
The 1st ever gold record was awarded to "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by the Glenn Miller Orchestra - this one was presented to the group's drummer, Tex Beneke
February 10, 1942
