What happend on 10th February

09.02
11.02
1989

Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

1982

Das Boot opens in United States theaters.

1981

A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.

1973

Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abd-ar-Rahman, is killed during the battle.

1967

The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.

1964

The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, collides with the Voyager off the south coast of NSW, Australia.

1962

Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

1954

President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

1949

Death of a Salesman opens (Morocco Theatre in New York City).

1947

Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.