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What happened in history on this day: February 10?
On February 10 in ...
- 1807 - US Coast Survey authorized by Congress.
- 1855 - US citizenship laws amended: all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship.
- 1858 - United States and France sign extradition convention to surrender persons charged with forgery or passing counterfeit coins.
- 1863 - First US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane of Virginia.
- 1868 - Conservatives and military seize Convention Hall in Florida.
- 1870 - YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) is founded (New York City, New York).
- 1879 - First electric arc light is used (California Theater).
- 1883 - Fire kills 71 people at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- 1890 - Around 11 million acres of land, ceded to the US government by Sioux Indians, are opened for settlement.
- 1897 - New York Times newspaper begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print".
- 1899 - -39 degrees F (-39 degrees C), Milligan Ohio (state lowest temperature record).
- 1899 - US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley; US gets Puerto Rico and Guam.
- 1917 - End of Punitive Expedition of US General Pershing into Mexico.
- 1923 - Ink paste manufactured for first time by Standard Ink Company.
- 1925 - First waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Indiana.
- 1927 - US President Calvin Coolidge asks for second disarmament conference.
- 1930 - Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by US Congress.
- 1933 - -54 degrees F (-48 degrees C), Seneca, Oregon (state record low).
- 1933 - Delivery of first singing telegram (Postal Telegram Company, New York City).
- 1934 - Byrd souvenir sheet issued, New York City; first unperforated ungummed US stamp.
- 1935 - Pennsylvania railroad begins passenger service on new streamlined electric locomotive.
- 1940 - MGM debuts animated cat and mouse characters "Tom and Jerry", created by Hanna and Barbera.
- 1941 - First US Highway Post Office makes first trip, Washington DC to Harrisonburg, Virginia.
- 1949 - Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman opens at Morosco Theater, New York City.
- 1954 - US President Dwight Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam.
- 1959 - Tornado in Saint Louis kills 19 and injures 265.
- 1961 - Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power.
- 1962 - USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel.
- 1967 - 25th Amendment to US Constitution (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect.
- 1971 - American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in New York.
- 1971 - US Secretary of the Treasury David M. Kennedy resigns.
- 1973 - 83-metre-wide gas tank on Staten Island, New York, explodes, crushing 40.
- 1977 - Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx, New York, named in honor of Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid (1976).
- 1978 - Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
- 1985 - -61 degrees F (-52 degrees C), Maybell Colorado (state record).
- 1988 - Three-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal).
- 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party.
- 1989 - To gain deregulation, WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition and not a sport, in a New Jersey court.
- 1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1993 - US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia.
- 1995 - Chelsi Smith, 21, Miss Texas, crowned 44th Miss USA.
- 1996 - IBM's chess computer "Deep Blue" defeats world chess champion Gary Kasparov in the first game of a regulation six-game match.
- 1997 - Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991.
- 1997 - O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages.
- 1998 - AOL raises monthly flat rate Internet access from $19.95 to $21.95.
- 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997, becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
- 2009 - U.S. Treasury chief Timothy Geithner unveils a bank rescue plan of US$2 trillion to buy up bad assets and restore credit.
- 2009 - General Motors Corp announces it will cut its global salaried work force by about 10,000, or 14 percent.
- 2009 - The U.S. Senate passes its own US$838 billion version of a rescue plan to fight the deepening recession, voting 61 to 37.
- 2009 - An American Iridium Satellite-operated communications satellite and the defunct Russian Cosmos-2251 military satellite collide at about 485 miles above the Russian Arctic, leaving a debris field of millions of pieces. This is the first publicly known satellite collision.
- 2023 - The U.S. Air Force shoots down an unknown object flying over Alaska.
Births on February 10
- 1868 - Birth of William Allen White in Emporia, Kansas, USA; editor (Pulitzer 1942).
- 1880 - Birth of Jesse G Vincent in Arkansas, USA; engineer, designed first V-12 engine.
- 1892 - Birth of Alan Hale AKA Rufus Alan Mackahan in Washington DC, USA; actor (Little John - Adventures of Robin Hood).
- 1893 - Birth of Jimmy Durante in New York City, New York, USA; long-nosed comedian.
- 1894 - Birth of Roy D'Arcy in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Warning Shadows, Revolt of Zombies).
- 1896 - Birth of Olin Howlin in Denver, Colorado, USA; actor (Swifty - Circus Boy).
- 1897 - Birth of John Franklin in Enders, Connecticut, USA; micro-biologist (polio-Nobel Prize 1954).
- 1898 - Birth of Robert Keith in Fowler, Indiana, USA; actor (Battle Circus, Branded, Wild One).
- 1902 - Birth of Stella Adler in New York, USA; actress (My Girl Tisa).
- 1905 - Birth of John Dierkes in Ohio, USA; actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll, Hanging Tree).
- 1906 - Birth of Lon Chaney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; actor (Dracula vs. Frankenstein, The Phantom, Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats).
- 1914 - Birth of Larry Adler in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; harmonica player (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer).
- 1916 - Birth of Edward Ross Roybal AKA Ed Roybal in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; American politician (Representative-Democrat-California, 1963-1993).
- 1922 - Birth of Neva Patterson in Nevada, Iowa, USA; actress (Governor and JJ, Doc Elliot, Nichols).
- 1924 - Birth of Randy Van Horne in El Paso, Texas, USA; singer (Nat King Cole Show).
- 1927 - Birth of Leontyne Mary Violet Price in Laurel, Mississippi, USA; opera soprano (Porgy and Bess).
- 1930 - Birth of Robert Wagner in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart).
- 1939 - Birth of Barbara Kolb in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; composer (Trobar Jus).
- 1939 - Birth of Roberta Flack in Black Mountain (Asheville), North Carolina, USA; vocalist ("The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face").
- 1943 - Birth of Ral Donner [Ralph Stuart] in Black Mountain, North Carolina, USA; singer (Starfires).
- 1950 - Birth of Mark Spitz in Modesto, California, USA; swimmer (Olympics - 9 gold/silver/bronze - 1968, 1972).
- 1951 - Birth of Roxanne Pulitzer in Glendale, California, USA; author (The Prize Pulitzer).
- 1955 - Birth of Lusia Mae Harris in Minter City, Mississippi, USA; basketball player (Olympics-silver-1976).
- 1960 - Birth of Lionel Cartwright in Ohio, USA; country vocalist ("I Watched it on the Radio").
- 1964 - Birth of Sam Graddy in Gaffney, South Carolina, USA; 4x100 metre runner (Olympics-gold-1984).
- 1965 - Birth of Lenny Webster in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; catcher (Montreal Expos).
- 1967 - Birth of Laura Dern in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Blue Velvet, Mask, Small Talk).
- 1968 - Birth of Ryan Bowen, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins).
- 1969 - Birth of Jayhawk Owens in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; catcher (Colorado Rockies).
- 1969 - Birth of Tim Clark; US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins).
- 1970 - Birth of Alberto Castillo; Dominican/US baseball catcher (New York Mets).
- 1970 - Birth of Bobby Jones in Fresno, California, USA; pitcher (New York Mets).
- 1970 - Birth of Brendan Eppert in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; speed skater (Olympics-1994).
- 1971 - Birth of Kevin Sefcik in Oaklawn, Illinois, USA; infielder (Philadelphia Phillies).
- 1971 - Birth of Marty Nothstein in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA; sprint cyclist Olympics-silver-1996).
- 1972 - Birth of Nancy Christian; Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; WPVA volleyball player (US Open-17th-1995).
- 1972 - Birth of Sara Simmons in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA; rower (Olympics-1996).
- 1977 - Birth of Stephanie Ann Foisy in Concord, New Hampshire; Miss New Hampshire-America (1995).
- 1981 - Birth of The Reverend Tholomew Plague; American drummer (Avenged Sevenfold).
Deaths on February 10
- 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, US author (Little House on Prarie), dies at age 90.
- 1968 - Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at age 79.
- 1992 - Alex Haley, American author (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at age 70 (born 1921).
- 1998 - Buddy the Wonder Dog (star of Air Bud), dies of cancer at age 9.
- 2000 - Death of Jim Varney of lung cancer at age 50; American actor (Ernest P. Worrell in commercials, Fernwood Tonight, Pop! Goes the Country, The Rousters, Hey Vern It's Ernest, Ernest Goes to Camp).
- 2001 - Death of Abraham Beame, mayor of New York City from 1974 to 1977 (born 1906).
- 2003 - Death of Edgar de Evia, American photographer (born 1910).
- 2003 - Death of Ron Ziegler, Richard Nixon's White House Press Secretary (born 1939).
- 2005 - Death of Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915).
- 2006 - Death of J Dilla, American music producer (born 1974).
- 2010 - Charles Nesbitt Wilson, US Democratic congressman for Texas (1973-96), dies at age 76 of cardiopulmonary arrest in Texas; for 24 years Wilson supported sending weapons and money to Afghanistan in the 1980s versus the Soviet Union.
- 2017 - Death of Hal Moore, American lieutenant general and author (born 1922).
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