February 10

Historic Events

2026

Shootings at a residence and a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, leave nine people dead and 27 injured. ›

2021

The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic. ›

2021

Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts. ›

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 5,000 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. ›

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 and 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. ›

1392

Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day. ›

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

The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire. ›