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Events on the 10th of February in history

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10 Feb 0060 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
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10 Feb 1098 Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
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10 Feb 1258 Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
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10 Feb 1306 In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence
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10 Feb 1355 The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
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10 Feb 1535 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
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10 Feb 1549 Tom
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10 Feb 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.
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10 Feb 1635 Acad
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10 Feb 1676 Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster, Massachusetts
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10 Feb 1713 Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier
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10 Feb 1716 Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
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10 Feb 1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
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10 Feb 1746 English Pelham government resigns
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10 Feb 1749 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
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10 Feb 1763 French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
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10 Feb 1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrenders Canada to England
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10 Feb 1774 Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
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10 Feb 1794 Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
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10 Feb 1807 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
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10 Feb 1814 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
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10 Feb 1824 Simon Bolivar named Dictator by the Congress of Peru
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10 Feb 1824 Simon Bol
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10 Feb 1840 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
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10 Feb 1840 British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg
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10 Feb 1846 First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
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10 Feb 1846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
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10 Feb 1846 Beginning of Mormon march to west US
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10 Feb 1855 US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
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10 Feb 1859 General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
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10 Feb 1860 John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres
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10 Feb 1861 Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
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10 Feb 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.
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10 Feb 1862 Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms
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10 Feb 1863 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
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10 Feb 1863 PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York NY)
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10 Feb 1866 Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms
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10 Feb 1868 Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
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10 Feb 1870 The YWCA is founded in New York City.
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10 Feb 1870 City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
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10 Feb 1870 YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) is founded (New York NY)
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10 Feb 1878 Peace of Zanj
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10 Feb 1878 Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres
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10 Feb 1879 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
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10 Feb 1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo
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10 Feb 1880 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
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10 Feb 1881 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman" premieres in Paris
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10 Feb 1882 Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka, " premieres in St. Petersburg
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10 Feb 1883 Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee WI, kills 71
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10 Feb 1890 Around 11 million acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
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10 Feb 1897 New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
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10 Feb 1899 -39
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10 Feb 1899 US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley; US gets Puerto Rico & Guam
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10 Feb 1900 Peter Ostlund skates world record 500 meter (45.2 seconds)
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10 Feb 1904 Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
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10 Feb 1906 HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
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10 Feb 1906 Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
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10 Feb 1906 State of siege proclaimed in Zululand
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10 Feb 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
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10 Feb 1912 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand vs Australia at MCG
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10 Feb 1913 Edward Sheldons "Romance, " premieres in New York City
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10 Feb 1913 Edward Sheldons "Romance" premieres in New York NY
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10 Feb 1916 Conscription begins in Britain
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10 Feb 1917 Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor
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10 Feb 1920 Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
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10 Feb 1920 Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with the ball
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10 Feb 1923 Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
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10 Feb 1923 Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
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10 Feb 1923 Owen Davis' "Icebound" premieres in New York NY
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10 Feb 1923 SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
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10 Feb 1924 Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators)
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10 Feb 1925 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Indiana
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10 Feb 1925 AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year
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10 Feb 1926 Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
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10 Feb 1927 President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
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10 Feb 1930 Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina
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10 Feb 1930 Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
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10 Feb 1931 Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Harts premieres in New York City
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10 Feb 1931 New Delhi becomes capital of India
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10 Feb 1933 Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began February 4th), 23 killed
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10 Feb 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.
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10 Feb 1933 -54
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10 Feb 1933 Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Company NYC)
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10 Feb 1933 Dutch sea-plane bombs Dutch ship
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10 Feb 1933 Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
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10 Feb 1933 Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
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10 Feb 1934 Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"
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10 Feb 1934 Thomson / Gertrude Steins opera premieres in New York City
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10 Feb 1934 Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
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10 Feb 1934 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
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10 Feb 1934 Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount" premieres in New York NY
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10 Feb 1934 Thomson/Gertrude Stein's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" premieres in New York NY
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10 Feb 1935 1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service
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10 Feb 1935 Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new streamlined electric locomotive
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10 Feb 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
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10 Feb 1937 Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400 meter (5:14.2)
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10 Feb 1938 King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
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10 Feb 1939 Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
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10 Feb 1940 "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
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10 Feb 1940 Tom and Jerry created by Hanna and Barbera debut by MGM
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10 Feb 1940 The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
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10 Feb 1940 "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
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10 Feb 1940 US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
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10 Feb 1941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Washington, DC to Harrisonburg, Virginia
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10 Feb 1941 Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in the Netherlands
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10 Feb 1942 Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
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10 Feb 1942 The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
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10 Feb 1943 "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality and self-determination
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10 Feb 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.
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10 Feb 1943 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
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10 Feb 1943 Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau
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10 Feb 1944 U-666 / U-545 / U-283 sink off Ireland
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10 Feb 1944 Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
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10 Feb 1945 "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
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10 Feb 1945 "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
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10 Feb 1946 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum
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10 Feb 1947 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
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10 Feb 1947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
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10 Feb 1947 Netherlands Radio Union forms
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10 Feb 1947 WWII peace treaties signed
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10 Feb 1948 Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki
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10 Feb 1949 Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
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10 Feb 1951 "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
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10 Feb 1951 "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
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10 Feb 1951 Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari
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10 Feb 1953 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Jean Westwood & Lawrence Demmy of Great Britain
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10 Feb 1953 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer & John Nicks of Great Britain
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10 Feb 1953 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA
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10 Feb 1954 United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
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10 Feb 1954 Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
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10 Feb 1954 Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN
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10 Feb 1954 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch Germany
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10 Feb 1954 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US
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10 Feb 1956 "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
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10 Feb 1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA
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10 Feb 1957 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
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10 Feb 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
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10 Feb 1959 Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone"
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10 Feb 1959 Tornado in St. Louis kills 19 and injures 265
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10 Feb 1960 "Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 performances
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10 Feb 1960 Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner" premieres
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10 Feb 1961 AFL's Los Angeles Chargers move to San Diego
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10 Feb 1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
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10 Feb 1961 Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres
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10 Feb 1962 Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
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10 Feb 1962 Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
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10 Feb 1962 Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
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10 Feb 1962 Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3 minutes 58.9 seconds) in Los Angeles CA
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10 Feb 1962 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
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10 Feb 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
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10 Feb 1963 US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon
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10 Feb 1964 Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82
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10 Feb 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.
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10 Feb 1964 Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne
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10 Feb 1964 WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Feb 1966 Harmel government in Belgium resigns
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10 Feb 1967 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
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10 Feb 1967 The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
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10 Feb 1968 "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3
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10 Feb 1968 "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3
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10 Feb 1968 Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
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10 Feb 1969 LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94
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10 Feb 1970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France)
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10 Feb 1970 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
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10 Feb 1971 Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (New York Yankees)
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10 Feb 1971 John Guares "House of Blue Leaves, " premieres in New York City
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10 Feb 1971 American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in New York
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10 Feb 1971 Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
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10 Feb 1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
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10 Feb 1972 Ras al Khaima joins the United Arab Emirates
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10 Feb 1973 83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
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10 Feb 1973 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
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10 Feb 1973 83 meter wide gas tank on Staten Island NY explodes, crushing 40
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10 Feb 1973 Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 vs New Zealand Dunedin
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10 Feb 1974 "Gigi" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances
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10 Feb 1974 Silver futures hit record $4.81
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10 Feb 1974 Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic
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10 Feb 1974 Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
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10 Feb 1974 Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17)
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10 Feb 1975 William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
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10 Feb 1977 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 performances
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10 Feb 1977 Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976)
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10 Feb 1977 Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born
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10 Feb 1977 Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid (1976)
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10 Feb 1977 Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro
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10 Feb 1978 Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA
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10 Feb 1979 "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1
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10 Feb 1979 Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed
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10 Feb 1980 Ianford Wilsons "Talley's Folly" premieres in New York NY
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10 Feb 1980 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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10 Feb 1981 A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel–casino kills eight and injures 198.
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10 Feb 1981 8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
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10 Feb 1981 33rd NHL All-Star Game Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at Los Angeles CA
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10 Feb 1981 Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249
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10 Feb 1982 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont Qu
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10 Feb 1983 Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament
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10 Feb 1985 -61
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10 Feb 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
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10 Feb 1985 35th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 140-129 at Indiana
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10 Feb 1985 Andrea Sch
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10 Feb 1985 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
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10 Feb 1985 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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10 Feb 1986 "John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released
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10 Feb 1986 John Lennon's "Live in NYC" album is released
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10 Feb 1987 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
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10 Feb 1988 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
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10 Feb 1988 Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails
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10 Feb 1989 Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
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10 Feb 1989 Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
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10 Feb 1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis MO
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10 Feb 1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a New Jersey court
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10 Feb 1989 Celtic Kansas City Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame
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10 Feb 1989 Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party (Democrats)
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10 Feb 1989 Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pakistan vs New Zealand age 16 years 189 days
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10 Feb 1989 Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff
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10 Feb 1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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10 Feb 1990 Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
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10 Feb 1990 South African President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free February 11th
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10 Feb 1990 Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to become heavyweight boxing champion
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10 Feb 1990 Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzene in water
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10 Feb 1990 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome)
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10 Feb 1991 NBA All Star Game at Charlotte, North Carolina
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10 Feb 1991 NBA All Star Game at Charlotte NC
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10 Feb 1991 "La Bete" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 24 performances
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10 Feb 1991 41st NBA All-Star Game East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte
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10 Feb 1991 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
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10 Feb 1991 Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54)
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10 Feb 1991 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
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10 Feb 1992 "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV
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10 Feb 1992 Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for the USA
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10 Feb 1992 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
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10 Feb 1993 "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC and drew an astounding 39.3 rating / 56 share, 90 million people
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10 Feb 1993 Jani Sievinen swims world record 200 meter backstroke (1:55.59)
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10 Feb 1993 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
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10 Feb 1995 Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA
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10 Feb 1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12 meters)
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10 Feb 1995 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek
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10 Feb 1996 The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
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10 Feb 1996 IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov
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10 Feb 1997 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards
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10 Feb 1997 5th annual ESPY Awards presented
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10 Feb 1997 Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
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10 Feb 1997 Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991
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10 Feb 1997 O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages
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10 Feb 1997 Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR
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10 Feb 1998 Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
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10 Feb 1998 AOL raises monthly flat rate Internet access from $19.95 to $21.95
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10 Feb 1998 Olympics figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
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10 Feb 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.
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10 Feb 2009 The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
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10 Feb 2013 Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
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