, but this is reserved only for acts of serious and unrepentant heresy. Even in that case, the individual is not "damned" by the Church but is instead left to his own devices. <h3> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints </h3>
February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 324 days remaining, 325 in leap years.
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Events
- 1258 - Battle of Baghdad (1258) - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing large numbers of citizens (estimates range from 10,000 to 800,000).
- 1542 - Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery).
- 1635 - The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite.
- 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.
- 1814 - Battle of Champaubert occurs.
- 1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
- 1846 - Many Mormons begin their migration west from Nauvoo, Illinois.
- 1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
- 1863 - Alanson Crane patents the fire extinguisher.
- 1870 - Anaheim, California is incorporated.
- 1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City).
- 1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
- 1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
- 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.
- 1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
- 1949 - Death of a Salesman opens (Morocco Theatre in New York City).
- 1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
- 1962 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- 1964 - The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, collides with the Voyager off the south coast of NSW, Australia.
- 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- 1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
- 1982 - Das Boot opens in United States theaters.
- 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
- 1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela would be released the next day.
- 1992 - In Indianapolis, Indiana boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping a Miss Black America contestant named Desiree Washington.
- 1996 - Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
- 1996 - The World Trade Centre in London is partially destroyed by an IRA bomb.
- 1997 - The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major Gene C. McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.
- 1998 - A college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace.
- 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
- 1999 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10.
- 2003 - Hockey star Brett Hull scores his 700th NHL goal.
- 2005 - North Korea and weapons of mass destruction: North Korea suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.
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Births
- 1499 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
- 1524 - Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
- 1609 - Sir John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
- 1685 - Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)
- 1846 - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
- 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960)
- 1892 - Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
- 1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and comedian (d. 1980)
- 1893 - Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
- 1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
- 1897 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
- 1897 - John F. Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
- 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
- 1901 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
- 1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
- 1904 - John Farrow, American film director (d. 1963)
- 1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
- 1906 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1910 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1969)
- 1914 - Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)
- 1920 - Alex Comfort, physician and writer (d. 2000)
- 1927 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
- 1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor
- 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
- 1932 - Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer
- 1934 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
- 1939 - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
- 1939 - Roberta Flack, American singer
- 1941 - Michael Apted, British director
- 1944 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
- 1944 - Frank Keating, American politician
- 1944 - Vernor Vinge, American novelist
- 1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
- 1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
- 1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor
- 1950 - Mark Spitz, American swimmer
- 1951 - Roxanne Pulitzer, American model
- 1955 - Greg Norman, Australian golfer
- 1960 - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
- 1961 - Alexander Payne, American film director
- 1961 - George Stephanopoulos, American political consultant and commentator
- 1962 - Cliff Burton, American musician (d. 1986)
- 1962 - Bobby Czyz, American boxer
- 1963 - Lenny Dykstra, baseball player
- 1967 - Laura Dern, American actress
- 1968 - Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
- 1969 - Tim Clark, baseball player
- 1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist
- 1970 - Tamra Cordova,mexican genius
- 1971 - Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler
- 1976 - Lance Berkman, baseball player
- 1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician
- 1979 - Ross Powers, American snowboarder
- 1980 - César Izturis, baseball player
- 1985 - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
- 1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress
- 1994 - Makenzie Vega, American actress
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Deaths
- 1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
- 1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
- 1242 - Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231)
- 1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
- 1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
- 1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
- 1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, English pirate
- 1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
- 1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect
- 1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
- 1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
- 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
- 1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
- 1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
- 1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
- 1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
- 1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
- 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
- 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
- 1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
- 1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
- 1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
- 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
- 1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
- 1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
- 1966 - Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
- 1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
- 1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
- 1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
- 2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
- 2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
- 2002 - Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939)
- 2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
- 2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
- 2003 - Clark MacGregor, U.S. Congressman (b. 1922)
- 2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
- 2003 - Ron Ziegler, American press secetary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
- 2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
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Holidays and observances
- Catholicism - St. Scholastica Day; World Marriage Day.
- Italy - National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe to commemorate Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiliee and Foiba massacres.
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External links
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