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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 10th February 2023   
   10 Feb 23 04:13:47   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1535 - 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets   
      
   1882 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "Snyegurochka" premieres in St   
   Petersburg   
      
   1927 - US President Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference   
      
   1962 - Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA   
      
   2014 - German alpine skier Maria Höfl-Riesch retains her Olympic combined   
   title (Vancouver 2010) when she Nicole Hosp beats of Austria by 0.4s   
      
   2019 - 72nd British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): "Roma" Best Film, Alfonso   
   Cuarón Best Director, Olivia Coleman, Rami Malek best actors   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1741 - Franz Adam Veichtner, German violinist and composer, baptized in   
   Regensburg, Bavaria (d. 1822)   
      
   1927 - Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal   
      
   1940 - Peter Middleton, CEO (Lloyd's)   
      
   1961 - Eva Pfaff, German tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1982   
   runner-up), born in Königstein im Taunus, Germany   
      
   1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver, born in Fukushima, Japan   
      
   1981 - Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter, born in Brighton, United Kingdom   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1774 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer, dies at 44   
      
   1836 - Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, French chemist (worked with husband   
   Antoine Lavoisier), dies at 78   
      
   1918 - Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909), dies at   
   75   
      
   1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)   
      
   2007 - Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)   
      
   2022 - Nikolai Manoshin, Russian soccer midfielder (8 caps; FC Torpedo Moscow,   
   CSKA Moscow) and manager (Somalia, Yemen, Mali), dies at 83   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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