February 10 in History

Historical Events on February 10

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.

1939 Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.

1940 The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.

1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.

1947 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.

1947 Crowds gathered at shop windows in Paris to see Christian Dior's New Look fashion - longer skirts, nipped-in waists and padded shoulders.

1954 United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

1996 IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.

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.

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Famous Birthdays on February 10

1894 Harold Macmillan

1952 Lee Hsien Loong

1964 Glenn Beck

1986 Radamel Falcao

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Famous Deaths on February 10

1912 Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister

1918 Abdul Hamid II

1939 Pope Pius XI

1960 Aloysius Stepinac

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