Today in History : February 10
1258 : Hulagu, a Mongol leader, seizes Baghdad, bringing an end to the Abbasid caliphate.
1620 : Supporters of Marie de Medici, the queen mother, who has been exiled to Blois, are defeated by the king’s troops at Ponts de Ce, France.
1763 : The Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War. France gives up all her territories in the New World except New Orleans and a few scattered islands.
1799 : Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Cairo, Egypt, for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men.
1814 : Napoleon personally directs lightning strikes against enemy columns advancing toward Paris, beginning with a victory over the Russians at Champaubert.
1840 : Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.
1846 : Led by religious leader Brigham Young, the first Mormons begin a long westward exodus from Nauvoo, Il., to Utah.
1863 : P.T. Barnum’s star midgets, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, are married.
1904 : Russia and Japan declare war on each other.
1915 : President Wilson blasts the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to deceive the Germans.
1939 : Japanese occupy island of Hainan in French Indochina.
1941 : London severs diplomatic relations with Romania.
1941 : Iceland is attacked by German planes.
1942 : The war halts civilian car production at Ford.
1945 : B-29s hit the Tokyo area.
1955 : Bell Aircraft displays a fixed-wing vertical takeoff plane.
1960 : Adolph Coors, the beer brewer, is kidnapped in Golden, Colo.
1966 : Protester David Miller is convicted of burning his draft card.
1979 : The Metropolitan Museum announces the first major theft in its 110-year history, $150,000 Greek marble head.
1986 : The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opens in Palermo, Italy.
Born on February 10
1890 : Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist and poet (Dr. Zhivago).
1893 : Jimmy Durante, American comedian and film actor.
1894 : Harold MacMillan, British prime minister (1957-1963).
1897 : John F. Enders, virologist.
1898 : Bertolt Brecht, German poet and dramatist (The Threepenny Opera).
1901 : Stella Adler, actress and teacher.
1902 : Walter Brattain, physicist, one of the inventors of the transistor.
1910 : Dominique Georges Pire, Belgian cleric and educator.
1914 : Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso.
1920 : Alex Comfort, English physician and author
1927 : (Mary Violet) Leontyne Price, opera singer.
1258 : Hulagu, a Mongol leader, seizes Baghdad, bringing an end to the Abbasid caliphate.
1620 : Supporters of Marie de Medici, the queen mother, who has been exiled to Blois, are defeated by the king’s troops at Ponts de Ce, France.
1763 : The Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War. France gives up all her territories in the New World except New Orleans and a few scattered islands.
1799 : Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Cairo, Egypt, for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men.
1814 : Napoleon personally directs lightning strikes against enemy columns advancing toward Paris, beginning with a victory over the Russians at Champaubert.
1840 : Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.
1846 : Led by religious leader Brigham Young, the first Mormons begin a long westward exodus from Nauvoo, Il., to Utah.
1863 : P.T. Barnum’s star midgets, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, are married.
1904 : Russia and Japan declare war on each other.
1915 : President Wilson blasts the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to deceive the Germans.
1939 : Japanese occupy island of Hainan in French Indochina.
1941 : London severs diplomatic relations with Romania.
1941 : Iceland is attacked by German planes.
1942 : The war halts civilian car production at Ford.
1945 : B-29s hit the Tokyo area.
1955 : Bell Aircraft displays a fixed-wing vertical takeoff plane.
1960 : Adolph Coors, the beer brewer, is kidnapped in Golden, Colo.
1966 : Protester David Miller is convicted of burning his draft card.
1979 : The Metropolitan Museum announces the first major theft in its 110-year history, $150,000 Greek marble head.
1986 : The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opens in Palermo, Italy.
Born on February 10
1890 : Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist and poet (Dr. Zhivago).
1893 : Jimmy Durante, American comedian and film actor.
1894 : Harold MacMillan, British prime minister (1957-1963).
1897 : John F. Enders, virologist.
1898 : Bertolt Brecht, German poet and dramatist (The Threepenny Opera).
1901 : Stella Adler, actress and teacher.
1902 : Walter Brattain, physicist, one of the inventors of the transistor.
1910 : Dominique Georges Pire, Belgian cleric and educator.
1914 : Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso.
1920 : Alex Comfort, English physician and author
1927 : (Mary Violet) Leontyne Price, opera singer.
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