All Events

Historical Events on February 10

  • Battle of Elizabeth City

    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.

  • Catalonia Offensive

    1939

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

  • Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union

    1940

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

  • Imperial Japanese Army

    1942

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

  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

    1947

    Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.

  • Christian Dior

    1947

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

  • Dwight Eisenhower

    1954

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

  • Garry Kasparov

    1996

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

  • Kaesong Industrial Region

    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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