On This Day — 10 February
2000s
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
1900s
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
1939
Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
Spanish Civil War
1936
Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
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.
Boxing
1930
The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam.
Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng
1923
Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
Texas Tech University
1920
Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
Józef Haller
1920
About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
Denmark
1906
HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened.
HMS Dreadnought (1906)
1800s
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.
American Civil War
1861
Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
1846
First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.
First Anglo-Sikh War
1840
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Queen Victoria
1814
Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
Napoleonic Wars
Before 1800
1763
French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
French and Indian War
1712
Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.
Huilliche uprising of 1712
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.
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1502
Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
Vasco da Gama
1392
Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day.
Manuel II Palaiologos
1355
The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
St Scholastica Day riot
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.
Dumfries
1258
The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire.
Siege of Baghdad