February 10
This day in history:
- 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.
- 1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
- 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.
- 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
Births:
- 1955 – Tom LaGarde, American basketball player
- 1963 – Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
- 1968 – Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut
Deaths:
- 1967 – Dionysios Kokkinos, Greek historian and author (b. 1884)
- 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
- 1992 – Alex Haley, American soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1921)
Random Article of the day:
Louis Michel (physicist)
Louis Michel (1923–1999) was a French mathematical physicist at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS). He was born in Roanne, in the Loire department in central France, on 4 May 1923, and died in Bures-sur-Yvette (Essonne), in the Île-de-France region, on 30 December 1999.