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Tuesday, 10 February 2026
1965 Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at 946 pages ($0.50) 
1965 Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76
1966 Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68.
1967 Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59
1969 50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show.
1969 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
1969 Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67
1970 The Beach Boys played to royalty at Royal Albert Hall in London. Princess Margaret was in attendance and shook the royal jewelry to such classics as Good Vibrations, I Get Around and Help Me, Rhonda
1971 Cease-fire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir
1971 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting.
1972 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India and Pakistan
1972 Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63
1973 Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101
1975 Lynette Fromme was sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life
1975 Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67
1978 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda.
1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle).
1979 Driver Stan Barrett became the inaugural person in the world to travel faster than sound on land. He drove the Budweiser Rocket car at a top speed of 739.666 in a one-way run at Rogers Dry Lake,California
1981 Members of the Red Brigades kidnap Brigadier General James L Dozier
1982 Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58
1983 Erik Christensen, NHL player.
1985 Otto Gotsche, writer, dies.
1986 Richard Kuklinski, a suspect in several murders, is arrested by undercover agents at a truck stop off the New Jersey Turnpike, marking the culmination of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms' "Operation Iceman.".
1986 Wayne Danke Schoen Newton won a $19.2 million judgment against NBC News, which had aired reports linking Newton to mob figures
1986 Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer.
1987 Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87.
1988 USS Tennessee, inaugural sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned.
1990 Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61
1991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6000th episode
1991 John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80
1992 Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83
1993 Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer.
1994 North Korea shoots down a US Army helicopter when it strays north of the demilitarized zone.dec18.
1994 Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64
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