The February 10th is the 41e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar .

Events

13th century

  • 1204 : Ébrard II, bishop of Uzès, sign with its predecessor, the charter of foundation of the chartreuse of Valbonne.

  • 1258 : the Mongolian troops of Hülagü seize Baghdad.

16th century

  • 1567 : : Assassination of Lord Darnley, second husband of the queen Marie Stuart. Their marriage had raised a sharp opposition as well on behalf of the queen Elisabeth Ire as within the various clans Scot. It was a tumultuous union. So that the Scottish nobility judged that the murder was the surest means to get rid of Lord Darnley.

17th century

  • 1615 : The admiral Dutch Pieter Both, general governor of the the Indies Dutchwomen, made shipwreck with the height of the bay of the Tomb (Mauritius).

  • 1635 : Paris: A circle of well-read men had taken the practice, for a few years, to meet at Valentine Conrart. The king, advised by Richelieu, comes by letters patent to give legal existence to the new institution, called French Academy.

18th century

19th century

  • 1811 : The Russian take Belgrade and make captive the Turkish army.

  • 1828 : The " Libertador " Simon Bolivar becomes the chief of the Colombian State.

  • 1848 : The king Ferdinand Ier proclaims a new constitution with Naples.

  • 1870 : Foundation of Y.M.C.A. (sung well later by the Village People).

20th century

  • 1910 : Shipwreck of the steamer General Chanzy in the archipelago of the Balearic Islands making 155 dead.

  • 1915 : The the United States declare that any attack against the American buildings will be regarded as attack with their neutrality.

  • 1941 : Darlan, vice-president of the council, becomes dolphin of Pétain.

  • 1942 :

    • RCA Victor invents the Disque of gold (+ of 500.000 sold specimens) to offer it to Glenn Miller for " Chattanooga Choo Choo ".
    • the French steamer Normandy, in repair for the transport of the troops, burns and capsizes in the port of New York.

  • 1943 :

    • the 8th British army reaches the Tunisian border.
    • a Moslem Algerian, Ferhat Abbas, publishes the Manifeste of the Algerian people and asserts a full autonomy for the Algérie.
    • In India, Gandhi begins an hunger strike to protest against its detention.

  • 1945 : The ship General S von Steuben is run by the Soviet submarine S-13.

  • 1948 : with Midsummer's Day of Newfoundland, fire makes thirty-four dead in a hearth for elder.

  • 1950 : The English national Klaus Fuchs admits to have transmitted to the Soviet Union of the data on the atomic bomb.

  • 1953 : The general Néguib receives the full powerss in Egypt.

  • 1961 :

    • the the United States give up their rights on many bases of defense in the the Antilles.
    • France: Adoption of the law creating the economic Council of guideline.

  • 1962 :

    • Captive since May 1960, when its Lockheed U-2 of espionage had been cut down above the Russia, the American Francis Gary Powers is exchanged against Rudolph Abel. He will become chronicler of circulation.
    • the commission of boxing of the State of New York dispossesses archie Moore of its championship of the world of boxing, category cruiser-weight. It has been 49 years old and holds this title for 9 years!

  • 1965 : Three coaches out of wooden of a train take fire close to Saragossa (Spain): 30 dead.

  • 1969:

    • Washington, London and Paris denounces the restrictions imposed by GDR on the access to Berlin and recalls to Moscow that the Soviet Union to the responsibility to ensure the freedom of these accesses.
    • Creation of Information-Canada for the safeguarding of the Canadian unit.

  • 1970 :

    • the king of Lesotho Moshoeshoe II is driven out capacity and leaves in exile.
    • a Avalanche makes 39 dead with Val of Isere, France.

  • 1971 : total Eclipse of the moon visible with the Quebec.

  • 1973 : The Cavern Club of Liverpool obtains a three months deferment of the Company of the British railroads, which undertook the construction of a subway, which would require the demolition of the history establishment.

  • 1974 :

    • General strike of the minors in Great Britain and dissolution of the Parliament.
    • Baghdad announces that 70 Iranians were killed or wounded during a border incident between the two countries.

  • 1979 : Agitation extends in Iran, where civilians unite with the juniors by the air force mutinés in favor of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

  • 1985 : Nelson Mandela rejects an offer of release on parole of the South-African racist mode.

  • 1986 :

    • Inauguration of the Palate of civilization to Montreal.
    • Opening of the lawsuit of the Maffia to Palermo with 474 accused.

  • 1987 : Release of 140 dissidents in Soviet Union.

  • 1989 : The Hungary adopts the principle of a transition towards the Multipartisme.

  • 1991 : the world records of speed skating beat on 10.000 m in 13 ' 43" 54.

  • 1995 : The Prime Minister Edouard Balladur announces the suspension of the circular on IUT in front of the rise of the dissatisfaction with the students.

  • 1997 : The rock opera Starmania receives the price of the spectacle having to its credit the most paying entries in 1996, at the time of the twelfth edition of the Victoires of the music to Paris. The lyric writer Luc Plamondon accepts the trophy of the hands of the singer Cyndi Lauper. Charles Aznavour, to which a special homage is returned, is proclaimed artist interprets year, just as Barbara.

  • 1998 :

    • the National Assembly adopts in first reading the project of law Aubry on the reduction of the working time at 35 hours weekly.
    • Launching of individual “the My Heart Will Go One ”, the song extracted the film Titanic interpreted by Celine Dion.

  • 1999 : Nicolas Fontaine of Magog becomes the first lifting skier three times winner of sharp of the World cup.

  • 2000 :

    • With the London airport of Stansted, of the pirates having hijacked a plane, the 6 with Kabul, goes; the hostages draw some unscathed.
    • Tracking of the pirates of the Net to the the United States.
    • Nokia became the first Finnish company.

21e century

  • 2002 : For the first time in addition to sixteen months of Intifada, Palestinians draw, since the Gaza Strip, two rockets on Israel; in reprisals, Israeli aviation bombards the principal complex of Palestinian safety with Gaza.

    • Claudia Pechstein, skater, gains the Olympic gold medal of the 3000 m ladies while carrying the world records with 3 mn 57 dryness 70/100.
    • three cisterns of toxic residues " perdues" the 2002, in full storm by the carry-container " Lykes Liberator " to 220 km in the west of the Finistere, France, are towed towards the roads of Brest. These cisterns contain residues of toxic products (halides of alkylaluminium likely to ignite spontaneously in contact with the air).
    • Two children are killed and of tens of people wounded by planes of the Sudanese government in the village of Akeum, Sudan. The army will start again the February 21st 2002.
    • the Untameable Lions, the national team of football of the Cameroun gain the Coupe of Africa of the Nations.

  • 2003 :

    • Russian President Vladimir Poutine pays her first official visit in France, occasion to seal the Franco-Russian agreement on the Iraqi file.
    • France: the Council of State confirms the withdrawal of the user license of Air-Freedom.
    • 1.000e emission of the series Watatatow (Quebec).
    • the France, the Russia and the Germany (joined soon by the China) adopt a Joint Declaration calling to the continuation and the substantial reinforcement of the inspections in Iraq. On its side, the Iraq authorizes “without conditions” the flights of planes - U2 spies, claimed by the inspectors of UNO, above its territory.

  • 2004 :

    • Jean-Pierre Raffarin tries to alleviate the anger of the restorers vis-a-vis the refusal of the Germany to lower VAT in this sector by announcing a plan of 1,5 billion euros of reduction in charges of the restorers over 18 months.
    • the appointed adopt in first reading, by 494 votes against 36, the bill on the Laïcité, which prohibits the wearing of religious signs " ostensibles" in the schools, colleges and public lycées as from the return to school 2004.
    • the crash landing of a plane of the Kish Airline close to the international airport of Charjah, United Arab Emirates, keep silent 43 of the 46 passengers and 6 team members.

  • 2005 :

    • Plus of 100.000 high-school pupils expresses in several towns of France to denounce the reform of the baccalaureat and the redundancies of teachers in the second degree and of the personal work framed (TPE) into final.
    • the Parlement adopts the bearing bill " definitively; recognition of the Nation and contribution nationale" in favor of the repatriates (pied-noir and Harkis).
    • the North Korea declares that it has atomic weapons and that it withdraws negotiations with six countries aiming at giving up its nuclear ambitions.
    • the Saudi Arabia knows today the first election of all the history of the country. 150.000 Saoudis of the province of Riyadh (only old men of at least 21 years, except for the soldiers) have to vote within the framework of a municipal poll. 19 advised municipal will be elected, 19 different will be indicated by the authorities.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

Catholic saints of the day

  • Happy Alexandre de Lugo († 1645)
  • Happy Arnaud († 1255)
  • Claire Argolanti († 1346)
  • Happy Eusèbe († 1501)
  • Guillaume de Maleval († 1157), hermit founder of an order.
  • Happy Guillaume Zucchio († 1377)
  • Happy Hugues de Cambrai († 1164)

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Anne princess of Novgorod († 1056).
  • Longin de Koriajemka († 1540)

See too

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