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10 February, 2008
The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea.
10 February, 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.
10 February, 1998
Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon that law.
10 February, 1996
The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
10 February, 1989
Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
10 February, 1981
A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
10 February, 1967
The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified.
10 February, 1964
Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
10 February, 1962
Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
10 February, 1954
President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
10 February, 1947
Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
10 February, 1933
The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
10 February, 1933
In round 13 of a boxing match at New York Citys Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
10 February, 1931
New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
10 February, 1929
Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu.
10 February, 1923
Texas Tech University was founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
10 February, 1920
Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
10 February, 1906
HMS Dreadnought (1906) is launched
10 February, 1904
The Russo-Japanese War over Korea and Manchuria begins after the Battle of Port Arthur.
10 February, 1870
The YWCA is founded (New York City).
10 February, 1863
The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
10 February, 1846
First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
10 February, 1840
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
10 February, 1814
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
10 February, 1798
Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
10 February, 1763
French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
10 February, 1567
An explosion destroys the Kirk o Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
10 February, 1542
Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery).
10 February, 1355
The St. Scholasticas Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.

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