Today in History
10 February
Edmund Halley
Peter's Repentance
By. Ary Scheffer
Henry Morton Stanley
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| 1098 Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch |
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| 1535 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets | ||
| 1549 Tom‚ de Sousa appointed gov-gen of Brazil | ||
| 1563 In France, the Peace of Amboise ended the First War of Religion. The Huguenots were granted a limited amount of toleration. | ||
| 1609 John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier was born | ||
| 1635 Academie Francaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu) | ||
| 1676 Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass | ||
| 1716 Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France | ||
| 1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England | ||
| 1728 Peter III Feodorovich, German/Russian czar of Russia (1761-62) was born | ||
| 1746 English Pelham governament resigns | ||
| 1749 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published | Edmund Halley |
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| 1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England | ||
| 1775 Charles Lamb, London England, critic/poet/essayist was born | ||
| 1795 Ary Scheffer, Dutch painter/etcher/sculptor was born | ||
| 1824 Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru | ||
| 1840 British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg | ||
| 1846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India | ||
| 1853 During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'ien-ching (Heavenly Capital). | ||
| 1859 General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny | ||
| 1861 The Maori insurrection in New Zealand ended when they finally surrendered. | ||
| 1862 Dutch 2nd governament of Thorbecke forms | ||
| 1863 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia | ||
| 1866 Dutch governament Frans van der Putte forms | ||
| 1878 Peace of Zanjn |
Peter's RepentanceBy. Ary Scheffer |
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| 1878 Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres | ||
| 1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo | ||
| 1880 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage | ||
| 1889 Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom) was born | ||
| 1897 John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist (polio-Nobel 1954) was born | ||
| 1898 Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)/composer was born | ||
| 1904 Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships | ||
| 1906 State of siege proclaimed in Zululand | ||
| 1910 Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958) | ||
| 1916 Conscription begins in Britain | ||
| 1920 The U.S. refused to sign the Versailles Treaty and join the League of Nations, for fear of being drawn into a war if another member country was invaded. | ||
| 1929 Henk Heidweiler, Surinam ambassador (in Netherlands) was born | ||
| 1931 New Delhi becomes capital of India | ||
| 1932 Australia's Sydney Harbor Bridge was officially opened. | ||
| 1933 Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship | ||
| 1933 Hitler proclaims end of Marxism | ||
| 1934 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine | ||
| 1935 Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new electric locomotive | ||
| 1938 King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga | ||
| 1940 Peter Middleton, CEO (Lloyd's) was born | ||
| 1940 Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM | ||
| 1942 Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" | ||
| 1943 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia |
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| 1943 Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau | ||
| 1944 In World War II under pressure from Hitler, Hungary allows German troops to cross the border into the country. | ||
| 1944 U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland | ||
| 1947 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia | ||
| 1947 Netherlands Radio Union forms | ||
| 1947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland | ||
| 1947 WW II peace treaties signed | ||
| 1951 Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari | ||
| 1954 Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam | ||
| 1959 Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265 | ||
| 1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power | ||
| 1964 Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82 | ||
| 1964 The Great St. Bernard Tunnel under the Alps between Switzerland and Italy was opened to traffic. | ||
| 1966 Harmel govt in Belgium resigns | Henry Morton Stanley |
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| 1969 British troops took over the island of Anguilla following internal political wranglings. | ||
| 1970 The heads of the West and East German governments, Willy Brandt and Willi Stoph, met at Erfurt. It was the first east-west meeting since Germany was divided. | ||
| 1971 Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa | ||
| 1977 Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro | ||
| 1972 A Treaty of friendship and mutual defense was signed between India and Bangladesh. | ||
| 1978 U.N. Security Council voted to send an Interim Force to Lebanon after a massive Israeli air raid on 14 March. | ||
| 1981 8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton | ||
| 1982 An Argentine scrap metal dealer landed on South Georgia and planted an Argentinean flag. The situation escalated and eventually led to the Falklands war. | ||
| 1987 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre | ||
| 1988 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in SF strikes down | ||
| 1988 Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails | ||
| 1988 Two British soldiers who drove into a Republican area of Belfast during a funeral procession, were seized and killed. | ||
| 1990 South African President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free February 11th | ||
| 1991 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR | ||
| 1991 In Iraq, Kurdish rebels captured the northern oil town of Kirkuk. | ||
| 1993 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia | ||
| 1994 A powerful bomb blast tore through a crowded metro train in the Azerbaijan capital Baku, killing 12 people and injuring 53. | ||
| 1995 Britain's Queen Elizabeth started an historic state visit to post-apartheid South Africa. | ||
| 1996 IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champ Gary Kasparov | ||
| 1996 Sarajevo became a united city again after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs. | ||
| 1997 Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR | ||
C.H. OSTFELD