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On this day February 10

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.

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 commit the worst ever human rights violation in the country by slaughtering an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in Wagalla in N.E.-Kenya.

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


Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.

1962


Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

1954


United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

1947


Crowds gathered at shop windows in Paris to see Christian Dior's New Look fashion - longer skirts, nipped-in waists and padded shoulders.

1947


Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.

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.

1942


World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.

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 launched 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


Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina

1923


Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas

1920


Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.

1906


HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.

1870


The YWCA is founded in New York City.

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 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.

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.

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 Greyfriar's Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence

1258


Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.

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