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The 10t o Februar is the 41t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 324 days ti come (325 in lowp years).
Events
1840 : Queen Victoria an Albert, Prince Consort 2006 : Winter Olympic Gemmes Openin Ceremony in Turin 1258 - Baghdad faws tae the Mongols .1306 - Robert the Bruce kills John III Comyn, Laird o Badenoch in Dumfries .1567 - Murther o Henry Stuart, Laird Darnley , husband o Mary, Queen o Scots .1763 - The Treaty o Paris ends the Seven Years' War.1840 - Weddin o Queen Victoria an Albert, Prince Consort .1910 - French passenger ship "General Chanzy" is tossed against a reef in a storm . It sinks, killin 155 fowk.1920 - North Schleswig chooses tae become pairt o Denmark in a referendum.1939 - Spaingie Ceevil War : Naitionalists finish their conquest o Catalonie .1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam .1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev an Helmut Kohl meet for talks.1996 - Supercomputer Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov at chess.2005 - A dam break at Shadi Kor, Pakistan , kills atween 140 an 500 fowk.2005 - Charles, Prince o Wales an Camilla Parker-Bowles propale their intention tae get mairit.2006 - Stairt o the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin .2007 - Barack Obama propales his intention tae run for Preses o the Unitit States .2008 - The Namdaemun laundmairk in Seoul , Sooth Korea , is heavily damaged bi fire .2013 - A stampede at the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad , Indie , kills 36 fowk.2013 - Association fitbaa : Nigerie wins its 3rd Africa Cup o Naitions teetle, defeatin Burkina Faso 1-0.2015 - Australie is invitit tae join the Eurovision Sang Contest.2020 - Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer propales her demission as leader o Germany 's Christian Democratic Union .2021 - COVID-19 pandemic : The nummer o fowk in Scotland gien a dose o the COVID-19 vaccine gets tae 1 million.
Births
Harold Macmillan Laura Dern 1859 - Alexandre Millerand , Preses o Fraunce (d. 1943 )1890 - Boris Pasternak , Roushie writer (d. 1960 )1894 - Harold Macmillan , Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1986 )1898 - Bertolt Brecht , German writer (d. 1956 )1899 - Cevdet Sunay , 5t Preses o Turkey (d. 1982 )1902 - Walter Houser Brattain , American theoretical pheesicist (d. 1987 )1903 - Matthias Sindelar , Austrick fitbawer (d. 1939 )1910 - Dominique Pire , Belgian friar (d. 1969 )1927 - Leontyne Price , American soprano1930 - Robert Wagner , American actor1932 - Barrie Ingham , Inglis actor (d. 2015 )1950 - Mark Spitz , American swimmer1952 - Lee Hsien Loong , Prime meenister o Singapore 1962 - Cliff Burton , American muisicker (d. 1986 )1963 - Philip Glenister , Inglis actor1966 - Natalie Bennett , Australian-Inglis politeecian1967 - Laura Dern , American actress1974 - Elizabeth Banks , American actress1976 - Keeley Hawes , Inglis actress1981 - Holly Willoughby , Inglis telly presenter1982 - Justin Gatlin , American sprinter1986 - Radamel Falcao , Colombie fitbawer1986 - Viktor Troicki , Serbie tennis player1991 - Emma Roberts , American actress1997 - Chloë Grace Moretz , American actress
Daiths
1306 - John III Comyn, Laird o Badenoch , Scots nobleman1567 - Henry Stuart, Laird Darnley , husband o Mary, Queen o Scots (b. 1545 )1752 - Henriette o Fraunce (b. 1727 )1755 - Montesqieu , French writer (b. 1689 )1829 - Pape Leo XII (b. 1760 )1837 - Alexander Pushkin , Roushie writer (b. 1799 )1879 - Honoré Daumier , French penter (b. 1808 )1918 - Abdul Hamid II , Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842 )1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta , Italian politeecian (b. 1833 )1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen , German pheesicist (b. 1845 )1939 - Pape Pius XI (b. 1857 )1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder , American writer (b. 1867 )2000 - Jim Varney , American actor (b. 1949 )2005 - Arthur Miller , American playwricht (b. 1915 )2008 - Roy Scheider , American actor (b. 1932 )2014 - Shirley Temple , American actress an diplomat (b. 1928 )
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