Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 10

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  The stabbing of John Comyn
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  HMAS Melbourne
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  Rudolf Abel on Soviet stamp
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  Albert, Prince Consort
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  HMS Dreadnought
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  Roy Lichtenstein

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Blurb	Reason
Feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck in Malta	refimprove
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
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.	Yellow "lede too long" banner
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
Clare of Rimini |d|1346|	Deathday not cited
Peter Heywood|d|1831|	Deathday not cited
Royal Cortissoz |b|1869|	Birthday not cited
Harold Macmillan |b|1894|	Multiple uncited paragraphs
Pope Pius XI |d|1939|	Too much uncited
Haruka Nakagawa |b|1992|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 1220 – Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire: the city of Bukhara was captured and looted by the Mongol army of Genghis Khan.
• 1258 – The last Abbasid caliph surrendered Baghdad to the besieging Mongol army of Hulegu Khan, who later sacked the city, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
• 1306 – Robert the Bruce stabbed John Comyn III of Badenoch to death (pictured) in front of the altar at Greyfriars church in Dumfries.
• 1712 – The Huilliche in Chile's Chiloé Archipelago rose up against Spanish encomenderos in revenge for perceived injustices.
• 1763 – To end the Seven Years' War, Britain, France and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris, which significantly reduced the size of the French colonial empire and marked the beginning of an extensive period of British dominance outside of Europe.
• 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.
• 1861 – Jefferson Davis was notified that he had been selected as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• 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.
• 1906 – The Royal Navy battleship Template:HMS was launched, representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1962 – The first solo exhibition by Roy Lichtenstein (pictured) opened, including the painting Look Mickey, which featured his first use of Ben Day dots, speech balloons, and comic imagery sourcing.
• 2008 – The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson.
• 2016 – In response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 by North Korea, the South Korean government closed the Kaesong Industrial Region, a collaborative economic development run jointly by both countries.
• Born/died this day: | Scholastica |d|547| Luis Daoíz y Torres |b|1767| Ary Scheffer |b|1795| Agnes Mary Clerke |b|1842| Robert Garran |b|1867| Árpád Göncz |b|1922| Wilhelm Röntgen |d|1923| Mark Spitz|b|1950| Bob Iger|b|1951| Lee Hsien Loong|b|1952| Laura Ingalls Wilder |d|1957| Enzo Maresca|b|1980| Cho Yeo-jeong|b|1981| Matej Tóth |b|1983| CaptainSparklez |b|1992| Lilly King |b|1997| Liatu King |b|2002| Trevor Bailey |d|2011| Shirley Temple |d|2014|

February 10: Feast day of Saint Scholastica (Christianity); Little New Year in northern China (2026); National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe in Italy Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1355 – A tavern dispute between students of the University of Oxford and townspeople in Oxford became a riot that left about 90 people dead.
• 1919 – The Inter-Allied Women's Conference (delegates pictured) opened as a counterpart to the Paris Peace Conference, marking the first time that women were allowed formal participation in an international treaty negotiation.
• 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists concluded their conquest of Catalonia and sealed the border with France.
• 2009 – The satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 destroyed each other in the first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit.