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February 10th


- Christian Feast Day
- Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)
- National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe, commemorate Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and Foibe massacres (Italy, especially in Trieste)

February 10th


- 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.
- 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
- 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
- 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
- 1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
- 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- 1964 - Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
- 1962 - Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- 1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
- 1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
- 1942 - Japanese submarine bombards Midway Atoll.
- 1933 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
- 1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
- 1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
- 1923 - Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
- 1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
- 1906 - HMS Dreadnought is launched.
- 1904 - The Russo-Japanese War over Korea and Manchuria begins after the Battle of Port Arthur.
- 1870 - The YWCA is founded in New York City.
- 1863 - The fire extinguisher is patented.
- 1846 - First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
- 1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
- 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
- 1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
- 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
- 1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
- 1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
- 1306 - In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
- 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.

February 10th


- 1997 - Chloë Moretz, American actress
- 1994 - Makenzie Vega, American actress
- 1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress
- 1990 - Sooyoung, Korean singer
- 1989 - Bunmi Mojekwu, British actress
- 1987 - Choi Si Won, Korean singer (Super Junior)
- 1986 - Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
- 1986 - Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
- 1986 - Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
- 1984 - Alex Gordon, American baseball player
- 1984 - Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
- 1983 - Bless, a Canadian rapper.
- 1983 - Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian gymnast.
- 1983 - James Ryan, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1982 - Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
- 1982 - Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
- 1982 - Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1981 - Andrew Johnson, English footballer
- 1981 - Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
- 1981 - Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter
- 1980 - Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
- 1980 - Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 - Bruno Sundov, Croatian basketball player
- 1980 - César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1979 - Jumaine Jones, American basketball player
- 1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician
- 1979 - Ross Powers, American snowboarder
- 1978 - Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
- 1978 - Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
- 1977 - Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
- 1976 - Lance Berkman, American baseball player
- 1976 - Keeley Hawes, English actress
- 1976 - Vedran Runje, Croatian footballer
- 1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
- 1975 - Kool Savas, German rapper
- 1974 - Elizabeth Banks, American actress
- 1974 - Ty Law, American football player
- 1974 - Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
- 1974 - Tanoai Reed, American stunt performer
- 1971 - Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
- 1971 - Lisa Marie Varon, American wrestler
- 1970 - Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player
- 1970 - Melissa Doyle, Australian TV personality
- 1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
- 1970 - Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
- 1970 - Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
- 1969 - Laurie Dhue, American television personality
- 1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist
- 1968 - Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1968 - Garrett Reisman, NASA astronaut
- 1968 - Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
- 1967 - Laura Dern, American actress
- 1967 - Jacky Durand, French cyclist
- 1967 - Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (d. 1999)
- 1967 - Armand Serrano, Filipino animator
- 1966 - Daryl Johnston, American football player
- 1966 - Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
- 1965 - Mario Jean, Quebec comedian and television actor
- 1964 - Glenn Beck, American radio and television host
- 1964 - Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
- 1964 - Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
- 1964 - Francesca Neri, Italian actress
- 1963 - Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
- 1963 - Philip Glenister, English actor
- 1962 - Cliff Burton, American musician (Metallica) (d. 1986)
- 1962 - Bobby Czyz, American boxer
- 1962 - Piero Pelù, Italian singer and songwriter (Litfiba)
- 1961 - Alexander Payne, American film director
- 1961 - George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator
- 1960 - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
- 1959 - John Calipari, American basketball coach
- 1959 - Dennis Gentry, American football player
- 1959 - Lisa McPherson, American Scientologist (d. 1995)
- 1958 - Michael Weiss, American musician
- 1955 - Chris Adams, British wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
- 1955 - Jim Cramer, American television personality
- 1955 - Greg Norman, Australian golfer
- 1954 - Larry McWilliams, baseball player
- 1952 - Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
- 1951 - Robert Iger, American entertainment executive
- 1950 - Mark Spitz, American swimmer
- 1949 - Jim Corcoran, Quebec singer and songwriter
- 1949 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
- 1949 - Nigel Olsson, British musician
- 1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor
- 1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
- 1947 - Nicholas Owen, English newsreader
- 1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
- 1947 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer
- 1946 - Eliot Wald, American comedy writer
- 1944 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
- 1944 - Frank Keating, American politician
- 1944 - Frances Moore Lappe, American writer and activist
- 1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician
- 1944 - Vernor Vinge, American novelist
- 1943 - Bill Laskey, American football player
- 1941 - Michael Apted, British director
- 1940 - Mary Rand, British athlete
- 1939 - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
- 1937 - Roberta Flack, American singer
- 1935 - John Alcorn, American designer and illustrator (d. 1992)
- 1935 - Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer
- 1934 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
- 1933 - Richard Schickel, American film critic
- 1931 - Doug Young, American voice actor
- 1930 - E.L. Konigsburg, American author
- 1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor
- 1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
- 1929 - Jim and Lou Whittaker, American mountaineers
- 1927 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
- 1927 - Brian Priestman, British conductor
- 1926 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)
- 1924 - Bud Poile, Canadian hockey player and executive (d. 2005)
- 1920 - Alex Comfort, British physician and writer (d. 2000)
- 1914 - Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)
- 1913 - Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer
- 1910 - Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
- 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
- 1906 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1905 - Walter A. Brown, Boston Celtics Owner (d.1964)
- 1904 - John Farrow, American film director (d. 1963)
- 1903 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
- 1903 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
- 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
- 1901 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
- 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
- 1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
- 1897 - Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
- 1897 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1985)
- 1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1957-1963 (d. 1986)
- 1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor/comedian (d. 1980)
- 1893 - Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
- 1892 - Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
- 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
- 1890 - Fanny Kaplan, failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1918)
- 1884 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
- 1868 - Prince Waldemar of Prussia, son of Emperor Frederick III (d. 1879)
- 1859 - Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943)
- 1846 - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
- 1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
- 1795 - Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
- 1785 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1836)
- 1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
- 1775 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
- 1744 - William Cornwallis, Royal Navy admiral (d.1819)
- 1685 - Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)
- 1609 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
- 1606 - Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
- 1524 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
- 1499 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)