10 February In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, February 10 is the day number 41 in a given year. February 10 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1567	After an explosion destroyed the house in Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, where he was staying, the strangled body of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, the King consort of Scotland, was found in a nearby orchard.
1616	British Ambassador Sir Thomas Roe came to Ajmer at the court of the Mughal ruler Jahangir.
1692	Calcutta founder Job Charnock died in Calcutta.
1712	The Huileche rebellion began in the Chila archipelago.
1716	Scottish thrower James III Edward came to France for the throne.
1763	Britain, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris to endthe Seven Years' War, significantly reducing the size of the Frenchcolonial empire while at the same time marking the beginning of anextensive period of British dominance outside of Europe.
1774	Andrew Baker participated in a diving suit demonstration.
1798	French General Louis-Alexander Berthier removed Popetti from power.
1823	The world's first Carnival Parade took place in Cologne, Prussia.
1825	Eamon Bolívar relinquished his title to the Peruvian dictator and took the alternate title of El Libetador.
1840	Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom at the Chapel Royal, becoming prince-consort.
1840	Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom married cousin Prince Albert to Saxe-Coburg and Goth.
1841	The British North America Act, 1840), the Union Act, was announced in Canada.
1846	The British defeated the Sikhs at the Battle of Sobraon.
1862	American Civil War-A Union naval flotilla destroyed the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
1868	The British War Office approved the formation of the Army Post Office Corps.
1879	Electricity was used for lighting for the first time in the California theater in the US.
1897	Freedom of religion was declared in Madagascar.
1906	The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched,representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships.
1912	The French Senate approved the Morocco Agreement.
1917	Johanna Westerditch became the first female professor in the Netherlands.
1930	The Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang launched the failed Yen Bai mutinyin the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.
1936	Second Italo-Abyssinian War-The Battle of Amba Aradam began and ended nine days later in a decisive tactical victory for Italy and the neutralisation of almost the entire Ethiopian army as a fighting force.
1939	Spanish Civil War-The Nationalists concluded their conquest of Catalonia and sealed the border with France.
1959	The storm in St. Louis, US, killed 19 and injured 265.
1961	Generation of electricity started with the Niagara Falls Hydropower Project in Canada.
1962	Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and itincluded Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Daydots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is nowknown for.
1962	Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Gary Powers, the pilot of the CIA spy plane that had been shot down over Soviet airspace two years earlier.
1964	The Royal Australian Navy aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne Collided with and sank the destroyer HMAS Voyager in Jervis Bay,Australia, killing 82 of Voyager's personnel.
1979	Itanagar became the capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
1991	Mike Tyson, the most successful boxing player in the world, was convicted of rape and sentenced to 6 years.
1992	Last episode of “Dangerous women” was been displayed on WWOR on TV.
1993	Michael Jackson Talked to Oprah Winfrey' airs on ABC and drew astound of 39.3 rating/56 share of about 90 million people.
1996	The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
1996	IBM's supercomputer Deb Blue defeated world champion Mary Kasparov for the first time in chess.
1997	5th Annual ESPY awards took place on this day.
2003	Namibia played the first international ODI match.
2006	The 20th Winter Olympic Games were started in Turin, Italy.
2008	An arson fire severely damaged the Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures.
2009	Due to the collision of a Russian and American official satellite, a large amount of space debris was created over Siberia.
2009	The first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit took place when Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collided and destroyed each other.
2009	Renowned classical singer Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was awarded the highest civilian honor of the country, Bharataratna.
2010	In the earlier week of February 10, 2010, the Afghan officials removed 150 dead bodies of people who were killed by avalanches in the Salang pass in the Hindu Kush Mountains.
2011	An undersea fibre optic cable has been arrived in Cuba, that link it to Venezuela offered its help to Cuba to speed up its internet commotion when US refused to do so.
2012	A story called “the cats of Copenhagen’ is known as an ‘outrage’, that is written by James Joyce for Choldrens has been published for the first time.
2013	In 2013, London hosts the 66th British Academy film awards where the best film award won by the movie called ‘Argo’ and the best actress award won by Emmanvelle Riva and David Day Lewis won the best Actor Award.
2014	Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi and along with some representatives from the country’s man portal parties agreed to transport Yemen into a country of six-region federation as a part of palatal transition.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1763	The Treaty of Paris ended the French-Indian War, with Canada surrendering to Britain.
1927	JRD Tata became the first Indian to get a pilot license.
1931	New Delhi became the capital of India.

Day/Observance	Level
World Pulses Day	International Day
National De-Worming Day	National Day

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1894	Harold Mc Millon / Politician / India
1904	Lal Bahadur Shastri / Activist / India
1916	Darbara Singh / Politician / India

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