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Events

• 1920 (106 years ago) About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
• 1940 (86 years ago) The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
• 1943 (83 years ago) 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.
• 1954 (72 years ago) U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
• 1972 (54 years ago) Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
• 2003 (23 years ago) 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.
• 2016 (10 years ago) South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.
• 2018 (8 years ago) Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.

Births

• 1890 (136 years ago) Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
• 1894 (132 years ago) Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
• 1898 (128 years ago) Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (died 1956)
• 1902 (124 years ago) Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
• 1952 (74 years ago) Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
• 1967 (59 years ago) Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer
• 1991 (35 years ago) Emma Roberts, American actress
• 1997 (29 years ago) Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress

Deaths

• 1755 (271 years ago) Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (born 1689)
• 1829 (197 years ago) Pope Leo XII,
• 1837 (189 years ago) Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (born 1799)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (born 1842)
• 1923 (103 years ago) Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
• 1939 (87 years ago) Pope Pius XI,
• 2005 (21 years ago) Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (born 1915)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (born 1928)

All 345 events, births and deaths of February 10