Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 10
This is a list of selected February 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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The fire at Namdaemun in 2008
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck in Malta | refimprove |
| 1258 – Hulagu Khan and the Mongols sacked and burned Baghdad, a cultural and commercial centre of the Islamic world at the time, ending the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate. | refimprove section |
| 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. | refimprove |
| 1841 – The British Parliament passed an Act of Union abolishing the legislatures of Lower Canada and Upper Canada and establishing a new political entity, the Province of Canada, to replace them. | needs more footnotes |
| 1846 – The forces of the British East India Company defeated the army of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab at the Battle of Sobraon, the decisive battle of the First Anglo-Sikh War. | refimprove |
| 1984 – Kenyan security forces massacred approximately 5,000 ethnic Somalis at the Wagalla Airstrip in Wajir County. | Overview short and tagged for {context}, also multiple {failed verification} {cn} tags in the Aftermath section |
| 1996 – Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first ever game won by a chess-playing computer against a World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions. | already featured on May 11 |
Eligible
- 1355 – A tavern dispute between University of Oxford students and townspeople became a riot that left about 90 people dead.
- 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: A French army led by Napoleon effectively destroyed a small Russian corps commanded by Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev.
- 1840 – Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Queen Victoria married at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London, with Albert being granted the title prince consort.
- 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.
- 1919 – The Inter-Allied Women's Conference opened as a counterpart to the Paris Peace Conference, marking the first time that women were allowed formal participation in an international treaty negotiation.
- 1930 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launched the failed Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.
- 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: The Battle of Amba Aradam began, ending 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.
- 1940 – Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, was released to theaters.
- 1962 – Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Francis 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 Melbourne collided with and sank the destroyer Voyager in Jervis Bay, killing 82 crew members aboard the latter ship.
- 2008 – The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson.
- 2009 – The first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit took place when Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 destroyed each other.
- Born/died this day: | Clare of Rimini |d|1346| Ary Scheffer |b|1795| Ira Remsen |b|1846| Royal Cortissoz |b|1869| Edith Clarke |b|1883| Harold Macmillan |b|1894| Joseph Lister |d|1912| Pope Pius XI |d|1939| Joan Curran |d|1999| Trevor Bailey |d|2011
February 10: Saint Scholastica's Day; National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe in Italy (1947)
- 1712 – Huilliches in Chile's Chiloé Archipelago rose up against Spanish encomenderos as vengeance for perceived injustices.
- 1763 – Britain, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris to end the Seven Years' War, significantly reducing the size of the French colonial empire while at the same time marking the beginning of an extensive period of British dominance outside of Europe.
- 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.
- 1962 – The first solo exhibition by Roy Lichtenstein (pictured) opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben Day dots, speech balloons, and comic imagery sourcing.
- Robert Garran (b. 1867)
- Árpád Göncz (b. 1922)
- Lilly King (b. 1997)