What happened on February tenth in history?

Answer 1

North Korea and weapons of mass destruction: North Korea suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.

Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10.

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

The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major Gene C. McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.

The World Trade Centre in London is partially destroyed by an IRA bomb.

In Indianapolis, Indiana boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping a Miss Black America contestant named Desiree Washington.

South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela would be released the next day.

Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African Americanto lead a major American political party.

Das Boot opens in United States theaters.

A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casinokills eight and injures 198.

The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.

1964 - The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, collides with the Voyager off the south coast of NSW, Australia.

Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

Death of a Salesman opens (Morocco Theatre in New York City).

Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.

In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.

New Delhi becomes the capital of India.

Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.

The YWCA is founded (New York City).

Alanson Crane patents the fire extinguisher.

Many Mormons begin their migration west from Nauvoo, Illinois.

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

Battle of Champaubert occurs.

French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.

The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite.

Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing large numbers of citizens (estimates range from 10,000 to 800,000)..