LONDON, Feb 9 Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 10 in h

LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 10 in history: 1932 - Edgar Wallace, British thriller writer, died.

1942 - Band leader Glenn Miller received the first gold disc after one million copies of ''Chattanooga Choo Choo'' were sold.

1962 - Francis Gary Powers, U.S. pilot of a U-2 plane shot down over the Soviet Union and imprisoned in 1960, was exchanged for KGB agent Rudolf Abel in Berlin.

1975 - Pakistan banned the opposition National Awami Party and arrested its leaders.

1991 - Lithuanians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union. Parliament had declared independence in March 1990.

1996 - An IBM computer called Deep Blue made chess history by comfortably beating world champion Garry Kasparov, a machine's first victory over a reigning world champion under classic tournament rules. Kasparov went on to beat the computer in later matches.

1998 - Tribal Shanti Bahini guerrillas fighting for autonomy in Bangladesh surrendered, ending a 25-year insurgency in which more than 8,500 people were killed.

1998 - Former French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann, a founding father of the European Union, died.

2001 - The International Space Station became the largest structure in space with the addition of the $1.4 billion science module Destiny.

2003 - Sir Fredrick Soaki, a key peace negotiator in the Solomon Islands and a member of the National Peace Council, was shot dead in the town Auki in Malaita province.

2005 - North Korea declared for the first time it possessed nuclear weapons and pulled out indefinitely from six-party talks on its atomic ambitions, saying it needed a defence against a hostile United States.

2005 - Playwright Arthur Miller, a titan of American theatre who wrote ''Death of a Salesman'' and was revered for works that spoke for the common man, died aged 89.

2006 - Mexican painter and sculptor Juan Soriano, whose large sculptures adorn public spaces in Mexico's capital, died. He was 85.

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