|
What happened in history on this day: February 10?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On February 10 in ...
- 1981 - Apple Computer announces the Apple III would no longer contain the built-in clock and calendar feature because National Semiconductor's clock chip didn't meet Apple's specifications. A $50 rebate is offered Apple III purchasers.
- 1983 - Texas Instruments files a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Houston, Texas, against Compaq Computer and ten officers and employees, claiming theft of trade secrets and patent infringement.
- 2002 - Handspring begins selling its Treo 180 and 180g handheld computers in the US. Price is US$399.
- 2002 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US.
- A personal computer with modem is demonstrated with alternate modem connection noise.
- On a standard-looking PC keyboard, the only key labelled is "SEND", instead of "ENTER".
- Another computer is shown, receiving email.
- 2003 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the 2500+, 2800+, and 3000+ Athlon XP desktop processors. They feature 512 kB level 2 cache, 333 MHz system bus, 0.13-micron process, 101 mm2 die size. Model, speed, and price (in 1000-unit quantities) respectively: 2500+ 1.833 GHz, 2800+ 2.083 GHz, US$375, 3000+ 2.167 GHz US$588.
- 2004 - Corel releases the CorelDraw 12 graphics software suite. Versions are available in eight languages. Price is US$399 for full version, US$179 for upgrade, and US$99 for student version.
- 2004 - PalmSource announces that Palm OS 5 will be known as Garnet, and Palm OS 6 will be known as Cobalt. The Cobalt version will be more suitable for cell phones and other wireless devices.
- 1934 - The Silly Symphony film The Grasshopper and the Ants is released to theaters. to theaters.
- 1935 - Donald Duck makes his first appearance in the Mickey Mouse Sunday edition comic strip.
- 1941 - Walt Disney tells staff that the studio is in a financial crisis, that animation is not working out so well.
- 1941 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Pinocchio for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Best Score.
- 1941 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" from the film Pinocchio for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Best Song.
- 1947 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Squatter's Rights for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1949 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Mickey and the Seal for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1949 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Tea for Two Hundred for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons.
- 1949 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Seal Island for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Two Reels.
- 1950 - The Pluto film Pluto and the Gopher is released.
- 1960 - The Stage Coach attraction ceases operations in Frontierland at Disneyland.
- 1961 - Disney generally releases the film One Hundred and One Dalmatians to theaters.
- 1963 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled Inside Outer Space with Ludwig von Drake.
- 1978 - Buena Vista generally releases the film Candleshoe to theaters in the US.
- 1980 - The NBC TV network airs the Disney's Wonderful World show, entitled Donald's Valentine Day Salute.
- 1989 - Touchstone/Warner releases the live-action feature film The Good Mother to theaters in the United Kingdom.
- 1999 - Central African Republic issues 24 postage stamps for the 70th birthday of Mickey Mouse. The stamps show scenes from Disney films drawn by Floyd Gottfredson.
- 2014 - Disney releases the Disney Interactive Entertainment film Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story on Google Play's platforms.
- 1957 - At the New Smyrna Beach municipal airport in Florida, car races are held, for professionals and amateurs. Chevrolet enters a 1957 race-prepared Corvette, driven by Paul Goldsmith. Bill Mitchell's Corvette SR-2 is the race's pace car. In the production race, Goldsmith finishes 2nd behind a Mercedes 300 SL. In the main race, Goldsmith finishes 4th.
- 1978 - A two-hour film airs on television about the life story of pop rockers Jan & Dean. Corvette scenes include a 1958 Corvette racing through a corn field, and a mid-60s Corvette crashing into the back of a truck.
- 1940 - The German Government warns Sweden and Norway that while sending aid to Finland was acceptable, the presense of English or French troops in transit to Finland would not be.
- 1941 - British War Cabinet elects to offer Greece military assistance.
- 1941 - (evening) Over 222 British aircraft bomb Hanover, Germany, doing great damage. Seven bombers are shot down. This is the largest aerial raid against a single target so far.
- 1941 - (evening) The British four-engined Short Stirling Mk I bomber debuts in active service. Their first operation is against oil storage tanks at Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- 1942 - Japanese forces take Banjermasin and Ulin airfield on Borneo.
- 1942 - Submarine U-564 torpedoes and shells Canadian merchant ship Victolite north-west of Bermuda. All 47 on board die.
- 1942 - Submarine U-136 torpedoes and sinks Royal Canadian Navy corvette Spikenard south of Iceland and west of Ireland. Spikenard was part of convoy SC-67, the first convoy of the "Newfie-Derry Run", from Newfoundland to Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
- 1942 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill instructs commanders on Singapore to battle to the last man, that senior officers should die with their troops.
- 1943 - The Soviet Red Army launches an offensive to try to open the October Railroad between Moscow and Leningrad.
- 1943 - Soviet forces attack the Spanish Blue Division near Krasny Bor, below Leningrad. The Blue Division is forced to retreat for the first time in the war.
- 1943 - Spanish and German governments sign a secret protocol, in which Spain will resist entry of Anglo-American forces on any Spanish territory, in exchange for German supplies of war material.
- 1947 - In Paris, France, representatives of 21 nations sign five peace treaties with Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Finland.
- 1988 - In Japan, Enix releases the Dragon Quest III video game for the Famicom.
- 1994 - Nintendo announces it will not release a CD-based video game system, but will continue to use cartridges for its next-generation system.
- 1997 - Nintendo releases the Mario Kart 64 video game for the Nintendo 64 in the US.
- 2009 - Xseed Games releases the Retro Games Challenge video game for the Nintendo DS in the USA.
- 2009 - Sega releases The House of the Dead: Overkill video game for the Nintendo Wii in the USA.
- 1306 - Torgils Knutsson is executed.
- 1914 - A huge student rally in Stockholm demonstrates in support of the king and the defence policy.
- 1887 - Mint Superintendent A. Loudon Snowden declares Dexter 1804 Draped Bust dollar genuine.
- 2005 - Representative Ray LaHood of Illinois introduces H.R. 767, the "Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial 1-cent Coin Redesign Act" in the House of Representatives.
- 2008 - (to February 13) In Los Angeles, California, Ira and Larry Goldberg Auctioneers conduct the Pre-Long Beach Sale auction. Some highlights:
- 1839-O half dollar, PR-65 NGC: 373,750;
- 1879 gold $4 Stella pattern, Flowing Hair, PS-67 cameo NGC: $322,000;
- 1795 gold eagle, 13 leaves, MS-64 NGC: $460,000.
- 1900 - Peter Ostlund skates world record 500 metre (45.2 seconds).
- 1908 - Tommy Burns knocks out Jack Palmer in four rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1912 - Jack Hobbs and Wilfred Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand versus Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1920 - US Major League Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with the ball.
- 1924 - Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators).
- 1925 - American League decides to alternate leagues for game one of World Series each year.
- 1937 - Ragnhild Hveger swims world free-style record 400 metre (5:14.2).
- 1940 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer.
- 1940 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner.
- 1953 - Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Jean Westwood and Lawrence Demmy of Great Britain.
- 1953 - Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer and John Nicks of Great Britain.
- 1953 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright (USA).
- 1953 - Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins (USA).
- 1954 - Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy (Great Britain).
- 1954 - Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden (Canada).
- 1954 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch (Germany).
- 1954 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins (USA).
- 1957 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open.
- 1961 - AFL's Los Angeles Chargers move to San Diego.
- 1962 - Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in Los Angeles, California.
- 1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Women's Golf Open.
- 1963 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon.
- 1963 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz.
- 1969 - LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94.
- 1973 - Second time New York Rangers shut-out New York Islanders 6-0.
- 1973 - Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 versus New Zealand Dunedin.
- 1974 - Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic.
- 1974 - Judy Ikenberry wins first US women's marathon (2:55:17).
- 1975 - William "Judy" Johnson selected to American baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1979 - Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed.
- 1980 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic.
- 1981 - 33rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at Los Angeles, California.
- 1981 - Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249.
- 1985 - 35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana.
- 1985 - Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82).
- 1985 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic.
- 1989 - Boston Celtics' KC Jones and Cleveland Cavaliers' Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame.
- 1989 - Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, Saint Louis, Missouri.
- 1989 - Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pakistan versus New Zealand age 16 years 189 days.
- 1990 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary.
- 1991 - 41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte, North Carolina.
- 1991 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament.
- 1991 - Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54).
- 1992 - Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics first gold medal for the USA.
- 1993 - Jani Sievinen swims world record 200 metre backstroke (1:55.59).
- 1995 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek.
- 2002 - In the 52nd NBA All Star Game the West defeats the East in Philadelphia at the Wachovia Center.
- 2005 - Roy Oswalt and the Houston Astros agree to a two-year, US$16.9 million deal.
- 2006 - (to February 26) The XX Olympic Winter Games take place in Turin, Italy.
- 2006 - Alfonso Soriano sets a record for the highest salary ever awarded in baseball arbitration: he will receive US$10 million to play outfield for the Washington Nationals.
- 2008 - In Honolulu, Hawaii, the NFL Pro Bowl game is held. NFC beats AFC 42 to 30. Most Valuable Player award goes to Adrian Peterson.
- 2022 - At Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, USA, NHL regular season game: Colorado Avalanche beats Tampa Bay Lightning by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Scotiabank Saddledrome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, NHL regular season game: Calgary Flames beats Toronto Maple Leafs by score 5-2.
- 2022 - At Enterprise Center in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, NHL regular season game: New Jersey Devils beats Saint Louis Blues by score 7-4.
- 2022 - At Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, NHL regular season game: Washington Capitals beats Montreal Canadiens by score 5-2.
- 2022 - At Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, NHL regular season game: Pittsburgh Penguins beats Ottawa Senators by score 2-0.
- 2022 - At TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, NHL regular season game: Carolina Hurricanes beats Boston Bruins by score 6-0.
- 2022 - At KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York, USA, NHL regular season game: Columbus Blue Jackets beats Buffalo Sabres by score 4-3.
- 1997 - Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU).
- 1997 - Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR.
- 2009 - An American Iridium Satellite-operated communications satellite and the defunct Russian Cosmos-2251 military satellite collide at about 485 miles above the Russian Arctic, leaving a debris field of millions of pieces. This is the first publicly known satellite collision.
- 2020 - A rocket blasts off from Florida carrying Solar Orbiter, a European space probe designed to fly to a distance of 42 million kilomteres from the Sun, to perform observations of solar phenomenon.
- 1959 - Tornado in Saint Louis kills 19 and injures 265.
- 1985 - -61 degrees F (-52 degrees C), Maybell Colorado (state record).
- 1807 - US Coast Survey authorized by Congress.
- 1855 - US citizenship laws amended: all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship.
- 1858 - United States and France sign extradition convention to surrender persons charged with forgery or passing counterfeit coins.
- 1863 - First US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane of Virginia.
- 1868 - Conservatives and military seize Convention Hall in Florida.
- 1870 - YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) is founded (New York City, New York).
- 1879 - First electric arc light is used (California Theater).
- 1883 - Fire kills 71 people at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- 1890 - Around 11 million acres of land, ceded to the US government by Sioux Indians, are opened for settlement.
- 1897 - New York Times newspaper begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print".
- 1899 - -39 degrees F (-39 degrees C), Milligan Ohio (state lowest temperature record).
- 1899 - US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley; US gets Puerto Rico and Guam.
- 1917 - End of Punitive Expedition of US General Pershing into Mexico.
- 1923 - Ink paste manufactured for first time by Standard Ink Company.
- 1925 - First waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Indiana.
- 1927 - US President Calvin Coolidge asks for second disarmament conference.
- 1930 - Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by US Congress.
- 1933 - -54 degrees F (-48 degrees C), Seneca, Oregon (state record low).
- 1933 - Delivery of first singing telegram (Postal Telegram Company, New York City).
- 1934 - Byrd souvenir sheet issued, New York City; first unperforated ungummed US stamp.
- 1935 - Pennsylvania railroad begins passenger service on new streamlined electric locomotive.
- 1940 - MGM debuts animated cat and mouse characters "Tom and Jerry", created by Hanna and Barbera.
- 1941 - First US Highway Post Office makes first trip, Washington DC to Harrisonburg, Virginia.
- 1949 - Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman opens at Morosco Theater, New York City.
- 1954 - US President Dwight Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam.
- 1959 - Tornado in Saint Louis kills 19 and injures 265.
- 1961 - Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power.
- 1962 - USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel.
- 1967 - 25th Amendment to US Constitution (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect.
- 1971 - American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in New York.
- 1971 - US Secretary of the Treasury David M. Kennedy resigns.
- 1973 - 83-metre-wide gas tank on Staten Island, New York, explodes, crushing 40.
- 1977 - Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx, New York, named in honor of Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid (1976).
- 1978 - Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
- 1985 - -61 degrees F (-52 degrees C), Maybell Colorado (state record).
- 1988 - Three-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal).
- 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party.
- 1989 - To gain deregulation, WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition and not a sport, in a New Jersey court.
- 1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1993 - US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia.
- 1995 - Chelsi Smith, 21, Miss Texas, crowned 44th Miss USA.
- 1996 - IBM's chess computer "Deep Blue" defeats world chess champion Gary Kasparov in the first game of a regulation six-game match.
- 1997 - Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991.
- 1997 - O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages.
- 1998 - AOL raises monthly flat rate Internet access from $19.95 to $21.95.
- 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997, becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
- 2009 - U.S. Treasury chief Timothy Geithner unveils a bank rescue plan of US$2 trillion to buy up bad assets and restore credit.
- 2009 - General Motors Corp announces it will cut its global salaried work force by about 10,000, or 14 percent.
- 2009 - The U.S. Senate passes its own US$838 billion version of a rescue plan to fight the deepening recession, voting 61 to 37.
- 2009 - An American Iridium Satellite-operated communications satellite and the defunct Russian Cosmos-2251 military satellite collide at about 485 miles above the Russian Arctic, leaving a debris field of millions of pieces. This is the first publicly known satellite collision.
- 2023 - The U.S. Air Force shoots down an unknown object flying over Alaska.
Other history:
- 1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrenders Canada to England.
- 2005 - North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.
vvv advertisement vvv
^^^ advertisement ^^^
You can pick a particular day to view that day's events in history.
Bookmark this URL: http://kpolsson.com/today/ and revisit each day.
(this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events)
Or, visit my Timelines of History page.
|