📅 February 10 · HMS Dreadnought (1906), Battle of Amba Aradam, Puss Gets the Boot, Operation…
February 10 in history: • 1906 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched, representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships. → go there • 1936 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: The Battle of Amba Aradam began, ending nine days later in a decisive tactical victory for Italy and the neutralisation of almost the entire Ethiopian army as a fighting force. → go there • 1940 – Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, was released to theaters. → go there • 1941 – In the first airborne operation undertaken by the British military, a small force of paratroopers landed near Calitri, Italy, to destroy an aqueduct. → go there • 2008 – The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson (damage pictured). → go there Born 1878: Guillermo Trujillo Durán Wiki link Died 1923: Wilhelm Röntgen Wiki link Born 1951: Bob Iger Wiki link Born 1971: Lisa Marie Varon Wiki link Pictured: Namdaemun gate during the arson event.