Historical Events on February 10

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• 60 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
• 822 U Cit Tok', pretender to the throne of the Maya city of Copán assumes control of the city (as inscribed on Altar L)
• 1098 Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch

• 1355 The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 62 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days

• 1535 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets

• 1549 Tomé de Sousa appointed as the 1st Governor-General of Brazil
• 1635 The Académie Française formed in Paris by Cardinal Richelieu
• 1676 King Philip's War: a force of 1,500 Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Narragansett Indians kill over 30 men and destroy buildings in Lancaster, Massachusetts
• 1713 Netherlands & Britain sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31]
• 1716 Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France

• 1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, France surrenders Canada to Great Britain
• 1774 Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit

• 1798 French army led by Louis Alexandre Berthier captures Rome
• 1807 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress

• 1837 Russian poet Alexander Pushkin is fatally injured in a duel with French officer Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès (1/29 OS)
• 1842 Moreton Bay Penal Colony abolished and opened for free settlement (modern city of Brisbane, Australia) [1]
• 1846 Beginning of Mormon march to western 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

• 1860 Johannes Brahms' orchestral music piece "Serenade No. 2 in A" premieres in Hamburg
• 1862 Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms

• 1863 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane of Virginia
• 1866 Dutch government of Frans van der Putte forms
• 1868 Conservatives & military seize Convention Hall in Florida
• 1870 City of Anaheim in California incorporates for the 1st time, but disincorporates after two years as the tax burden was too high
• 1870 The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) forms in NYC
• 1878 Pact of Zanjón signed between Cubans rebels and the Spanish bringing the 10 Years War to an end
• 1879 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)

• 1881 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman" premieres in Paris
• 1882 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's 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, then opened 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)
• 1900 Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec)
• 1904 Japan and Russia declare war
• 1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design
• 1906 State of siege proclaimed in Zululand

• 1912 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
• 1913 Edward Sheldon's "Romance" premieres in NYC

• 1915 US President Woodrow Wilson warns Germany that the US will hold it 'to a strict accountability' for 'property endangered or lives lost'

• 1916 Military conscription begins in Britain
• 1917 Johanna Westerdijk installed as the Netherlands' 1st female professor
• 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'

• 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

• 1925 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Indiana
• 1926 Building of Olympic Stadium Amsterdam, begins

• 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 the capital of India

• 1932 Sweden goes 1-2 in the 18k cross country event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; Sven Utterström wins gold ahead of teammate Axel Wikström
• 1933 -54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)

• 1933 Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship
• 1933 Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
• 1933 The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company of New York City delivers the 1st singing telegram [1]
• 1934 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
• 1934 Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp

• 1938 King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga

• 1941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Washington, D.C. to Harrisonburg, Virginia
• 1941 Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands

• 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 and Coca-Cola" by the Andrews Sisters hits #1

• 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
• 1951 "John and Marsha" by Stan Freberg, a parody of daytime soap operas which had only two voices repeating each other's names, peaks at #21 in the USA

• 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 Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA

• 1955 The US Navy evacuate 1000s from Tachen Islands in the Pacific
• 1956 "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
• 1959 Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone"
• 1959 Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265

• 1961 AFL's LA Chargers move to San Diego
• 1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power

• 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
• 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 Pierre Harmel's Belgium government resigns
• 1967 25th Amendment (US Presidential Disability & Succession) ratified
• 1968 "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3

• 1970 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
• 1970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel at Val d'Isere, France, killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths

• 1971 American Mensa Ltd incorporates in New York
• 1971 Bill White becomes 1st African American baseball announcer (NY Yankees)
• 1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
• 1972 Ras al Khaima joins United Arab Emirates
• 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
• 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1973 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
• 1973 83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
• 1973 Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad scores 201 runs in a match against New Zealand
• 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
• 1977 Bomb explosion in Moscow metro
• 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
• 1978 Frank C. Carlucci succeeds John F. Blake as deputy director of the CIA
• 1978 U.S. premiere of "Blue Collar", Paul Schrader's first film direction

• 1980 Ianford Wilsons "Talley's Folly" premieres in NYC
• 1981 8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton

• 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 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-E mission
• 1985 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1987 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians in Lupao Massacre
• 1988 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
• 1988 Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails

• 1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis
• 1989 Ron Brown chosen 1st African American chairman of a major US party (Democrats)
• 1989 Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days
• 1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court
• 1989 Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff
• 1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1990 Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water

• 1991 Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54)
• 1991 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
• 1992 "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV

• 1993 Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59)
• 1993 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
• 1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)
• 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

• 1997 5th ESPY Awards: Michael Johnson, Amy Van Dyken Lobo win
• 1997 Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
• 1997 Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991

• 1997 Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR
• 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 the 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.

• 2008 The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea.

• 2013 36 people are killed and 39 are injured in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad, India

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