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Historical Events on February 10

  • Napoleonic Wars

    1814

    Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.

  • American Civil War

    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.

  • Spanish Civil War

    1939

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

  • Soviet Union

    1940

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

  • World War II

    1942

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

  • Paris

    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.

  • Lockheed U-2

    1962

    Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

  • South Korea

    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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