On This Day: February 10th

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

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

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

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.