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Events
1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
1763 – French and Indian War: Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War in North America). France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. France lost many of its colonial possessions, while British dominance outside Europe expanded.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war.
1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1897 – The New York Times begins using the slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print."
1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
1920 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1930 – Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina.
1933 – The Postal Telegram Company in New York delivers 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. Schaaf dies four days later.
1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
1940 – The iconic cartoon Tom and Jerry debuts.
1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
1964 – Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
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.
1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
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.
2009 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
2013 – Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
2013 – Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from the papacy, the first pontiff to resign in more than half a millennium.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)
Traditional Western
Scolastica, Virgin. Double.
Contemporary Western
Austreberta
Charalambos
Scholastica
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Hieromartyr Charalampus, Bishop of Magnesia in Asia Minor, and with him
martyrs Porphyrius and Baptus and three women (202)
Martyrs Ennatha, Valentina, and Paula, Virgin-Martyrs of Palestine (308)
Saint Zeno the Righteous, the Postman of Emperor Valens, hermit at Antioch (4th c.)
Saint Anastasius II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (706)
Saint Anna (Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden), wife of Yaroslav I the Wise,
of Novgorod and Kiev (1050)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Zoticus, Irenaeus, Hyacinth, Amantius and Companions, at Rome (120)
Ten Soldier-Martyrs of Rome, buried on the Via Lavicana (c. 250 ?)
Saint Soteris, virgin-martyr in Rome under Diocletian (304)
Saint Silvanus, Bishop of Terracina in Italy, Confessor (c. 443)
Saint Scholastica of Italy (543), sister of St. Benedict of Nursia
Saint Baldegundis, Abbess of Saint-Croix in Poitiers in France (c. 580)
Saint Desideratus (Désiré), successor of St Avitus as Bishop of Clermont
in Auvergne in France (6th c.)
Saint Prothadius (Protagius), successor of St Nicetius as Bishop of Besançon
in France (624)
Saint Austrebertha, Abbess of Abbeville and of Pavilly in northern France (704)
Saint Trumwine of Abercorn, Bishop of the Southern Picts in Scotland,
who retired at Whitby Abbey (c. 704)
Saint Erluph, Bishop of Werden in Germany, martyred by pagans (830)
Saint Salvius, Abbot of Albelda in the north of Spain (962)
Saint Merwinna, Abbess of Romsey Abbey (970)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
All Saints and Bishops of Novgorod:
Joachim (1030), Luke the Jew (1058), Germanus (1095), Arcadius (1163),
Gregory (1193), Martyrius (1199), Anthony (1232), Basil (1352), Moses (1362),
Symeon (1421), Gennadios (1504), Poimen (1571) and Athonios (1648)
Saint Prochorus of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1107)
Saint Basil Kalika, Archbishop of Novgorod the Great and Pskov (1352)
Saint John Chimchimeli of Bachkovo and Gremi (13th century)
Saint Longinus, founder of Koryazhemka Monastery in Vologda, monastic (1540)
Saint Raphael, Archimandrite (1765), and St. Ioannicius, Hieromonk (1882),
of Svatogorsk Monastery
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs Peter and Valerian, Priests (1930)
New Martyr Anatole (Greesiuk), Metropolitan of Odessa (1938)
Other commemorations
Synaxis of the "Areovindus" ("Fiery Vision") Icon of the Most Holy TheotokosFeast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)
Traditional Western
Scolastica, Virgin. Double.
Contemporary Western
Austreberta
Charalambos
Scholastica
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Hieromartyr Charalampus, Bishop of Magnesia in Asia Minor, and with him
martyrs Porphyrius and Baptus and three women (202)
Martyrs Ennatha, Valentina, and Paula, Virgin-Martyrs of Palestine (308)
Saint Zeno the Righteous, the Postman of Emperor Valens, hermit at Antioch (4th c.)
Saint Anastasius II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (706)
Saint Anna (Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden), wife of Yaroslav I the Wise,
of Novgorod and Kiev (1050)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Zoticus, Irenaeus, Hyacinth, Amantius and Companions, at Rome (120)
Ten Soldier-Martyrs of Rome, buried on the Via Lavicana (c. 250 ?)
Saint Soteris, virgin-martyr in Rome under Diocletian (304)
Saint Silvanus, Bishop of Terracina in Italy, Confessor (c. 443)
Saint Scholastica of Italy (543), sister of St. Benedict of Nursia
Saint Baldegundis, Abbess of Saint-Croix in Poitiers in France (c. 580)
Saint Desideratus (Désiré), successor of St Avitus as Bishop of Clermont
in Auvergne in France (6th c.)
Saint Prothadius (Protagius), successor of St Nicetius as Bishop of Besançon
in France (624)
Saint Austrebertha, Abbess of Abbeville and of Pavilly in northern France (704)
Saint Trumwine of Abercorn, Bishop of the Southern Picts in Scotland,
who retired at Whitby Abbey (c. 704)
Saint Erluph, Bishop of Werden in Germany, martyred by pagans (830)
Saint Salvius, Abbot of Albelda in the north of Spain (962)
Saint Merwinna, Abbess of Romsey Abbey (970)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
All Saints and Bishops of Novgorod:
Joachim (1030), Luke the Jew (1058), Germanus (1095), Arcadius (1163),
Gregory (1193), Martyrius (1199), Anthony (1232), Basil (1352), Moses (1362),
Symeon (1421), Gennadios (1504), Poimen (1571) and Athonios (1648)
Saint Prochorus of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1107)
Saint Basil Kalika, Archbishop of Novgorod the Great and Pskov (1352)
Saint John Chimchimeli of Bachkovo and Gremi (13th century)
Saint Longinus, founder of Koryazhemka Monastery in Vologda, monastic (1540)
Saint Raphael, Archimandrite (1765), and St. Ioannicius, Hieromonk (1882),
of Svatogorsk Monastery
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs Peter and Valerian, Priests (1930)
New Martyr Anatole (Greesiuk), Metropolitan of Odessa (1938)
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Zakynthos from the plague
by Saint Charalampus (1728)
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