Historical timeline for February 10

Shootings at a residence and a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, leave nine people dead and 27 injured.

Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts.

The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.

South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.

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

The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport.

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.

IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.

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

Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.

Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.

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

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.

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

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.

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.

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