Pelé’s Success Secret Exposed + The Moon’s Insane Rabbit Face in the Southern Hemisphere = February 10 History You Can’t Miss!
And you think today is boring. Plenty of stuff happened back in the day.
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Quote of the day
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing. | Pelé
Did you know?
You can’t see the moon In in the Southern Hemisphere. That is because the moon looks upside down compared to the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere he looks more like a rabbit.
On this day in history, February 10
1840 Boer leader MW Pretorius makes Mpande king of the Zulus after wresting control from Shaka’s successor, Dingaan.
1901 Boer General Christiaan de Wet and his commando invade the Cape Colony at Zanddrif, near Philippolis.
1906 HMS Dreadnought, the first of a new breed of battleships, is christened, rendering all other capital ships obsolete.
1914 In accordance with the understanding reached by Defence Minister General Jan Smuts and civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi, 60 passive-resistance prisoners are released from Pietermaritzburg Prison; 40 in Durban, 8 in Newcastle, and 11 in Port Elizabeth.
1954 US President Dwight Eisenhower warns against the US becoming involved in Vietnam. No-one listens.
1962 Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for a Soviet spy.
1985 Nelson Mandela rejects president PW Botha’s offer of a conditional release.
1990 President FW de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on February 11.
1991 Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok says that more than 17 million people were arrested under the country’s repressive influx control laws between 1921 and 1986.
1996 The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats grandmaster Garry Kasparov in chess.
2009 Two communications satellites collide in orbit, destroying each other.
2013 Five people are killed by a lifeboat falling from a cruise ship in the Canary islands.
2019 Sexual abuse investigation into US Southern Baptist churches reveals 400 church members implicated with over 700 victims.
2021 A 17 000-year-old conch shell, discovered in a cave in the French Pyrenees is found to be oldest-known wind instrument, after being reassessed by archaeologists.
2023 A World War II-era bomb found in Great Yarmouth, England, explodes in an ‘unplanned’ detonation as experts attempt to disarm it. There are no casualties.
2024 Hungarian President Katalin Novak resigns after pardoning a man involved in a child sexual abuse case.
2025 Guatemala declares three days of national mourning after a bus leaves the road and plunges into a ravine, killing 55 people.
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