February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining until the end of the year (325 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
+ 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
+ 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
+ 1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
+ 1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
+ 1954 – United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
+ 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
( Births )
+ 1893 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and pianist (d. 1980)
+ 1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer
+ 1959 – John Calipari, American basketball player and coach
+ 1964 – Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author
+ 1976 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player and coach