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This day in history: 10 February

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345 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 10 February.
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2026: Shootings at a residence and a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, leave nine people dead and 27 injured.

Holidays and observances

Arabian Leopard Day

Christian feast day: Austrebertha

Christian feast day: Blessed Eusebia Palomino Yenes

Christian feast day: Charalambos

Christian feast day: February 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: José Sánchez del Río

Christian feast day: Scholastica

Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)

Fenkil Day(commemoration of the Second Battle of Massawa) (Eritrea)

Kurdish Authors Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy)

Events

2026Shootings at a residence and a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, leave nine people dead and 27 injured.

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

2021The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2018Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.

2016South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.

2013Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.

2009The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

2004Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport.

2003France 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.

1996IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.

1989Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

1984Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.

1972Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.

1967The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.

1964Melbourne–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.

1962Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

1954U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

1947The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.

1943World 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.

1940The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.

1939Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.

1936Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.

1933In 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.

1930The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam.

1923Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.

1920About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.

1920Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.

1906HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened.

1862American 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.

1861Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

1846First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.

1840Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

1814Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.

1763French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.

1712Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.

1567Lord 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.

1502Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.

1392Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day.

1355The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.

1306In 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.

Born on this day

2009Antonio Arena, Italian footballer

2006Megan Skiendiel, American singer, dancer and actress

2001Sergio Camello, Spanish footballer

2000María Carlé, Argentine tennis player

2000Yara Shahidi, American actress and model

1999Tiffany Espensen, American actress

1997Adam Armstrong, English footballer

1997Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress

1997Josh Jackson, American basketball player

1997Josh Rosen, American football player

1997Lilly King, American swimmer

1997Nadia Podoroska, Argentine tennis player

1996Alexandar Georgiev, Bulgarian-Russian ice hockey player

1996Emanuel Mammana, Argentine footballer

1995Bobby Portis, American basketball player

1995Carolane Soucisse, Canadian ice dancer

1995Lexi Thompson, American golfer

1995Naby Keïta, Guinean footballer

1995Sterling Brown, American basketball player

1994Kang Seul-gi, South Korean singer

1994Makenzie Vega, American actress

1994Miguel Almirón, Paraguayan footballer

1994Son Na-eun, South Korean singer and actress

1993Filip Twardzik, Czech footballer

1993Luis Madrigal, Mexican footballer

1993Max Kepler, German-American baseball player

1993Yasser Ibrahim, Egyptian footballer

1992Haruka Nakagawa, Japanese singer and actress

1992Reinhold Yabo, German footballer

1991C. J. Anderson, American football player

1991Emma Roberts, American actress

1991Rebecca Dempster, Scottish footballer

1990Choi Soo-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer

1990Trevante Rhodes, American actor

1990Yuri Berchiche, Spanish footballer

1989Birgit Skarstein, Norwegian Paralympic athlete and social entrepreneur

1989Liam Hendriks, Australian baseball player

1989Travis d'Arnaud, American baseball player

1988Francesco Acerbi, Italian footballer

1987Facundo Roncaglia, Argentine footballer

Died on this day

2026Jose de Venecia Jr., Filipino politician and journalist, 17th and 21st Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives (born 1936)

2025Peter Tuiasosopo, American football player and actor (born 1963)

2023AKA, South African rapper (born 1988)

2022Olsen Filipaina, New Zealand rugby league player (born 1957)

2021Larry Flynt, American publisher (born 1942)

2019Carmen Argenziano, American actor (born 1943)

2019Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (born 1944)

2017Mike Ilitch, American businessman (born 1929)

2016Fatima Surayya Bajia, Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (born 1930)

2015Deng Liqun, Chinese theorist and politician (born 1915)

2015Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (born 1928)

2015Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (born 1934)

2014Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (born 1928)

2014Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (born 1932)

2013David Hartman, American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (born 1931)

2013W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (born 1927)

2012Jeffrey Zaslow, American journalist and author (born 1958)

2012Lloyd Morrison, New Zealand banker and businessman, founded H. R. L. Morrison & Co (born 1957)

2011Trevor Bailey, English cricketer and journalist (born 1923)

2010Charles Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (born 1933)

2010Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (born 1925)

2008Roy Scheider, American actor and boxer (born 1932)

2006James Yancey, American record producer and rapper (born 1974)

2005Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (born 1915)

2003Albert J. Ruffo, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Jose (born 1908)

2003Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (born 1910)

2003Ron Ziegler, American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary (born 1939)

2002Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)

2001Abraham Beame, American academic and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (born 1906)

2001Buddy Tate, American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1913)

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“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

Lao Tzu

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