# What happened on February 10 in history?

**Date:** February 10  
**Events recorded:** 41  
**Years spanned:** 1258 – 2026  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/february/10/

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## Featured Event

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

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis)

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## Events on this date

- **1258** — The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumfries))
- **1355** — The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Scholastica_Day_riot))
- **1392** — Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_II_Palaiologos))
- **1502** — Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Stuart%2C_Lord_Darnley))
- **1712** — Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huilliche_uprising_of_1712))
- **1763** — French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War))
- **1814** — Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars))
- **1840** — Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria))
- **1846** — First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Sikh_War))
- **1861** — Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1906** — HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)))
- **1920** — Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Haller))
- **1920** — About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark))
- **1923** — Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Tech_University))
- **1930** — The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam_Qu%E1%BB%91c_D%C3%A2n_%C4%90%E1%BA%A3ng))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing))
- **1936** — Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Italo-Ethiopian_War))
- **1939** — Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War))
- **1940** — The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1947** — The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Treaties%2C_1947))
- **1954** — U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower))
- **1962** — Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%E2%80%93Voyager_collision))
- **1967** — The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution))
- **1972** — Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Al_Khaimah))
- **1984** — Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya_Army))
- **1989** — Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Brown))
- **1996** — IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO))
- **2004** — Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_50))
- **2009** — The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_satellite))
- **2013** — Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Prayag_Kumbh_Mela_stampede))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea))
- **2018** — Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Motor_Bus))
- **2021** — The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Carnival))
- **2021** — Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis))
- **2026** — Shootings at a residence and a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, leave nine people dead and 27 injured. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Tumbler_Ridge_shooting))

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## Notable births on February 10

- **2009** — **Antonio Arena** — Italian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Arena))
- **2001** — **Sergio Camello** — Spanish footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Camello))
- **2000** — **María Carlé** — Argentine tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Lourdes_Carl%C3%A9))
- **2000** — **Yara Shahidi** — American actress and model ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yara_Shahidi))
- **1999** — **Tiffany Espensen** — American actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Espensen))
- **1997** — **Josh Jackson** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Jackson_(basketball)))
- **1997** — **Lilly King** — American swimmer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_King))
- **1997** — **Chloë Grace Moretz** — American actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlo%C3%AB_Grace_Moretz))
- **1997** — **Nadia Podoroska** — Argentine tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Podoroska))
- **1997** — **Josh Rosen** — American football player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Rosen))

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## Notable deaths on February 10

- **2026** — **Jose de Venecia Jr.** — Filipino politician and journalist, 17th and 21st Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives (born 1936) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_de_Venecia_Jr.))
- **2025** — **Peter Tuiasosopo** — American football player and actor (born 1963) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tuiasosopo))
- **2023** — **AKA** — South African rapper (born 1988) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKA_(rapper)))
- **2022** — **Olsen Filipaina** — New Zealand rugby league player (born 1957) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olsen_Filipaina))
- **2021** — **Larry Flynt** — American publisher (born 1942) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flynt))
- **2019** — **Carmen Argenziano** — American actor (born 1943) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Argenziano))
- **2019** — **Jan-Michael Vincent** — American actor (born 1944) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Michael_Vincent))
- **2017** — **Mike Ilitch** — American businessman (born 1929) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Ilitch))
- **2016** — **Fatima Surayya Bajia** — Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (born 1930) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_Surayya_Bajia))
- **2015** — **Naseer Aruri** — Palestinian scholar and activist (born 1934) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naseer_Aruri))

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