more events on February 10
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1986
The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opens in Palermo, Italy.
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1979
The Metropolitan Museum announces the first major theft in its 110-year history, $150,000 Greek marble head.
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1966
Protester David Miller is convicted of burning his draft card.
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1960
Adolph Coors, the beer brewer, is kidnapped in Golden, Colo.
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1955
Bell Aircraft displays a fixed-wing vertical takeoff plane.
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1945
B-29s hit the Tokyo area.
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1942
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1941
Iceland is attacked by German planes.
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London severs diplomatic relations with Romania.
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1939
Japanese occupy island of Hainan in French Indochina.
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1927
(Mary Violet) Leontyne Price, opera singer.
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1920
Alex Comfort, English physician and author (Joy of Sex).
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1915
President Wilson blasts the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to deceive the Germans.
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1914
Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso.
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1910
Dominique Georges Pire, Belgian cleric and educator.
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1904
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1902
Walter Brattain, physicist, one of the inventors of the transistor.
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1901
Stella Adler, actress and teacher.
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1898
Bertolt Brecht, German poet and dramatist (The Threepenny Opera).
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1897
John F. Enders, virologist.
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1894
Harold MacMillan, British prime minister (1957-1963).
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1893
Jimmy Durante, American comedian and film actor.
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1890
Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist and poet (Dr. Zhivago).
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1863
P.T. Barnum’s star midgets, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, are married.
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1846
Led by religious leader Brigham Young, the first Mormons begin a long westward exodus from Nauvoo, Il., to Utah.
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1840
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.
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1814
Napoleon personally directs lightning strikes against enemy columns advancing toward Paris, beginning with a victory over the Russians at Champaubert.
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1799
Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Cairo, Egypt, for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men.
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1763
The Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War. France gives up all her territories in the New World except New Orleans and a few scattered islands.
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1620
Supporters of Marie de Medici, the queen mother, who has been exiled to Blois, are defeated by the king’s troops at Ponts de Ce, France.
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1258
Hulagu, a Mongol leader, seizes Baghdad, bringing an end to the Abbasid caliphate.