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Events on February 10

• 1605 The first known performance of William Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice takes place at the Palace of Whitehall in London in the presence of King James I.
• 1823 The first Cologne Rosenmond procession, organised by the festival committee of the Cologne Carnival, a registered association founded in 1823, begins under the motto Accession to the Throne of the Hero Carneval in central Cologne.
• 1840 British Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the chapel of St James’s Palace.
• 1919 The Weimar National Assembly, elected on 19 January, passes the law on the provisional power of the Reich. It regulates the executive during the transition from the German Empire to the new republic. The election of the Reich President takes place the next day.
• 1940 With Puss Gets the Boot, the first film featuring the animated characters Tom and Jerry is released in US cinemas.
• 1949 Arthur Miller's drama Death of a Salesman premieres on Broadway. Elia Kazan directs the play, with Lee J. Cobb in the leading role.
• 1953 In the GDR, Operation Rose begins in the seaside resorts on the Baltic Sea coast and on Rügen, ultimately leading to the nationalisation of hotels, taxi companies and service companies.
• 1962 The first exchange of captured agents between the USA and the USSR during the Cold War takes place on Glienicke Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam – Rudolf Ivanovich Abel for Francis Gary Powers.
• 1970 In a terrorist attack by the Palestinian Action Organization for the Liberation of Palestine (AOLP) on an El Al flight in the transit hall of Munich Airport, an Israeli passenger is killed and eleven other people sustain serious injuries to varying degrees.
• 1996 The reigning chess world champion Garry Kasparov loses the first game against the chess computer Deep Blue, developed by IBM. The match continued until 17 February.
• 2007 The German female biathletes Andrea Henkel, Martina Glagow and Kati Wilhelm take gold, silver and bronze in the mass-start race at the Biathlon World Championships in Antholz.
• 2009 For the first time, two artificial Earth satellites collide in their orbit. The Strela satellite Kosmos 2251 and the Iridium satellite 33 collide at an altitude of around 790 kilometres over the Taimyr Peninsula in northern Siberia.

Born on February 10

• 1890 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Russian poet and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
• 1901 Stella Adler, American stage and film actress
• 1902 Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1910 Dominique Pire, Belgian Dominican friar, founder of aid organizations and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1930 Robert Wagner, American actor
• 1950 Mark Spitz, American swimmer
• 1952 Frank Bsirske, German trade unionist and politician
• 1970 Marco Girnth, German actor
• 1997 Lilly King, American swimmer
• 2000 Nicole Anyomi, German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „10. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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