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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
1922	Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (d. 2015)
1929	Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
1937	Anne Anderson, Scottish physiologist and academic (d. 1983)
1939	Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida, Angolan nationalist (d. 1967)
1964	Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author
1962	Cliff Burton, American heavy metal bassist (d. 1986)
1997	Nadia Podoroska, Argentine tennis player
1967	Vince Gilligan, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1883	Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (d. 1959)
1869	Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (d. 1948)

Famous People Deaths On February 10

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Date	Name
1993	Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist and academic (b. 1929)
1945	Anacleto Díaz, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1878)
1865	Heinrich Lenz, Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (b. 1804)
2008	Roy Scheider, American actor and boxer (b. 1932)
1957	Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
1997	Brian Connolly, Scottish musician (b. 1945)
1992	Alex Haley, American soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1921)
1960	Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1918	Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1842)
2022	Olsen Filipaina, New Zealand rugby league player (b. 1957)