Historical Events on February 10, Special Events on This Day

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What Happened on February 10th This Day in History

Year Name
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.
Famous People Born on February 10

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Year Name
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
Famous People Deaths On February 10

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Date Name
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)