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Year | Name |
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2021 | The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
2018 | Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns. |
2016 | South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4. |
2013 | Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. |
2009 | The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. |
2004 | Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport. |
2003 | France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq. |
1996 | IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. |
1989 | Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. |
1984 | Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre. |
1972 | Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates. |
1967 | The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. |
1964 | Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82. |
1962 | Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. |
1954 | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. |
1947 | The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II. |
1943 | World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor. |
1940 | The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. |
1939 | Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France. |
1936 | Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders. |
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. |
1930 | The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam. |
1923 | Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas. |
1920 | Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea. |
1920 | About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites. |
1906 | HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened. |
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. |
1846 | First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war. |
1840 | Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. |
1814 | Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians. |
1763 | French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. |
1712 | Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos. |
1567 | Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination. |
1502 | Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India. |
1355 | The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. |
1306 | In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence. |
1258 | Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end. |
Here is a random list who born on February 10. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1883 | H.V. Hordern, Australian cricketer (d. 1938) |
1964 | Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author |
1986 | Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer |
1944 | Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1992) |
1947 | Louise Arbour, Canadian lawyer and jurist |
1905 | Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (d. 1939) |
1890 | Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960) |
1904 | John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1963) |
1920 | José Manuel Castañón, Spanish lawyer and author (d. 2001) |
1974 | Henry Paul, New Zealand rugby player and coach |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on February 10. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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1932 | Edgar Wallace, English author and screenwriter (b. 1875) |
2005 | Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (b. 1915) |
1306 | John "the Red" Comyn, Scottish nobleman |
1918 | Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1842) |
1524 | Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1468) |
2016 | Fatima Surayya Bajia, Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (b. 1930) |
1567 | Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1545) |
2014 | Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (b. 1932) |
2013 | W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (b. 1927) |
1857 | David Thompson, English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (b. 1770) |