WHAT HAPPENED ON 10. FEBRUARY
Want to find out what all happened on 10. February

The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo". (10. February 1942)

World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor. (10. February 1943)

Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia. (10. February 1947)

President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. (10. February 1954)

Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. (10. February 1962)

Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for. (10. February 1962)

Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82. (10. February 1964)

The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. (10. February 1967)

A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198. (10. February 1981)

Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. (10. February 1989)

The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. (10. February 1996)

Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law. (10. February 1998)

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 2003)

The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. (10. February 2009)

Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. (10. February 2013)