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On this day - February 10
1258 — The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last ...
1306 — In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, ...
1355 — The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, ...
1392 — Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, ...
1502 — Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second ...
1567 — Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found ...
1712 — Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.
1763 — French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and ...
1814 — Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French ...
1840 — Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of ...
1846 — First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs ...
1861 — Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been ...
1862 — American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk ...
1906 — HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of ...
1920 — About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in ...
1920 — Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of ...
1923 — Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological ...
1930 — The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny ...
1933 — In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison ...
1936 — Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle ...
1939 — Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of ...
1940 — The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens ...
1943 — World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of ...
1947 — The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, ...
1954 — U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United ...
1962 — Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is ...
1964 — Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS ...
1967 — The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ...
1972 — Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up ...
1984 — Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans ...
1989 — Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National ...
1996 — IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess ...
2003 — France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval ...
2004 — Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a ...
2009 — The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 ...
2013 — Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a ...
2016 — South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint ...
2018 — Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor ...
2021 — Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 ...
2021 — The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled ...
2026 — Shootings at a residence and a school in Tumbler Ridge, ...