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Tuesday, 10 February 2026
1991 General Motors announces the closing of 21 plants 
1991 June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73
1992 Dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83.
1993 Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74.
1994 Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor/director, dies at 71
1995 Chaim Pearl, rabbi, dies at 76.
1996 Arthur Jacobs, musicologist, dies at 74
1997 Chris Farley, comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy), dies at 33
2005 In this year, Evo Morales claims the Bolivian Presidential Elections
2005 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is hospitalized after suffering a minor stroke. He was released from the hospital two days later.
2005 The World Trade Organization 6th ministerial conference concludes in Hong Kong with a limited trade deal being ratified
2007 Jacob Zuma is elected president of the African National Congress political party in South Africa during the party's national conference
2007 The Verkhovna Rada has approved Yulia Tymoshenko to become Prime Minister of Ukraine
2012 4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy
2017 South Africa's ANC selects Cyril Ramaphosa as leader, to succeed President Jacob Zuma.
2017 Australia regains cricket's Ashes against England, winning by an innings to take 3 game lead at the Wacca in Perth
2017 Austria swears in new coalition government with Sebastian Kurz aged 31 of the People's Party made Chancellor.
2018 Manchester United sacks high profile Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho; United in 6th place in EPL, 19 points behind league leaders Liverpool; Ole Gunnar Solskjaer new caretaker manager.
2018 Nevada is recorded as becoming the inaugural US state with a female-majority legislature with new appointments taking it to 51%
2018 Fire destroys 600 stilt homes in Manaus, northwestern Brazil
2019 The CHEOPS space telescope, whose mission is to study the formation of extrasolar planets and determine their precise radius, likely density and internal structure, is launched.
2019 The U.S. House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Trump, making him the third president to be impeached in the nation's history.December 19 - Libya's Government of National Accord activates a cooperation accord with Turkey, allowing for a potential Turkish military intervention in the Second Libyan Civil War.
2020 US Vice President Mike Pence receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine live on TV
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 75 million worldwide
2023 A number of shipping companies announce a temporary suspension of their operations in the Red Sea due to continued attacks on vessels by Houthi rebels.
2025 27th and 28th US military strikes in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean sink two suspected drug smuggling vessels and kill five, bringing total deaths in the program to over 100
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