10 February
Notable Births
María Lourdes Carlé
b. 2000
Argentine tennis player (born 2000)
Yara Shahidi
b. 2000
American actress and producer (born 2000)
Tiffany Espensen
b. 1999
American actress (born 1999)
Josh Jackson (basketball)
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Lilly King
b. 1997
American swimmer (born 1997)
Chloë Grace Moretz
b. 1997
American actress (born 1997)
Nadia Podoroska
b. 1997
Argentine tennis player (born 1997)
Josh Rosen
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Adam Armstrong (footballer)
b. 1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Alexandar Georgiev
b. 1996
Russian ice hockey player (born 1996)
Emanuel Mammana
b. 1996
Argentine footballer (born 1996)
Sterling Brown (basketball)
b. 1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Bobby Portis
b. 1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Carolane Soucisse
b. 1995
Canadian-Irish ice dancer (born 1995)
Lexi Thompson
b. 1995
American professional golfer (born 1995)
Naby Keïta
b. 1995
Guinean footballer (born 1995)
Son Na-eun
b. 1994
South Korean actress (born 1994)
Seulgi
b. 1994
South Korean singer (born 1994)
Miguel Almirón
b. 1994
Paraguayan footballer (born 1994)
Yasser Ibrahim
b. 1993
Egyptian footballer (born 1993)
Notable Deaths
Jose de Venecia Jr.
d. 2026
Filipino politician (1936–2026)
Peter Tuiasosopo
d. 2025
American football player and actor (1963–2025)
AKA (rapper)
d. 2023
South African rapper (1988–2023)
Olsen Filipaina
d. 2022
NZ international rugby league footballer (1957–2022)
Larry Flynt
d. 2021
American publisher (1942–2021)
Carmen Argenziano
d. 2019
American actor (1943–2019)
Jan-Michael Vincent
d. 2019
American actor (1944–2019)
Mike Ilitch
d. 2017
American businessman (1929–2017)
Naseer Aruri
d. 2015
American professor and author (1934–2015)
Karl Josef Becker
d. 2015
German Catholic theologian (1928-2015)
Deng Liqun
d. 2015
Chinese politician (1915–2015)
Shirley Temple
d. 2014
American actress and diplomat (1928–2014)
Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)
d. 2014
Jamaican-British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and activist (1932–2014)
W. Watts Biggers
d. 2013
American novelist
David Hartman (rabbi)
d. 2013
American-Israeli philosopher (1931–2013)
Lloyd Morrison
d. 2012
New Zealand investment banker (1957–2012)
Jeffrey Zaslow
d. 2012
American author, and newspaper columnist (1958–2012)
Trevor Bailey
d. 2011
England cricketer, sportswriter and broadcaster
Fred Schaus
d. 2010
American basketball player and coach, college athletics administrator (1925–2010)
Charlie Wilson (Texas politician)
d. 2010
American politician (1933–2010)
On This Day in History
All 41 ›2026
Shootings at a residence and a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, leave nine people dead and 27 injured.
2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting
2021
The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rio Carnival
2021
Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts.
2021 Texas power crisis
2018
Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.
Kowloon Motor Bus
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.
South Korea
2013
Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
2013 Prayag Kumbh Mela stampede
2009
The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
Communications satellite
2004
Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport.
Fokker 50
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.
NATO
1996
IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
IBM
1989
Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
Ron Brown
1984
Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.
Kenya Army
1972
Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
Ras Al Khaimah
1967
The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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.
Melbourne–Voyager collision
1962
Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
Cold War
1954
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1947
The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
Paris Peace Treaties, 1947
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.
World War II
1940
The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
Soviet Union