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The band Hellyeah, with Vinnie Paul and Bob Kakaha

Damageplan was an American heavy metal supergroup from Dallas, Texas, formed in 2003. Following the demise of their previous group Pantera, brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul started a new band with bassist Bob Kakaha and vocalist Patrick Lachman, a guitarist formerly with Diesel Machine and Halford. They released their only studio album, New Found Power, in the United States on February 10, 2004; it debuted at number 38 on the Billboard 200. Later that year Damageplan was promoting the album at a concert at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio, when a man climbed on stage, killed Darrell and three others, and wounded another seven before being fatally shot by a police officer. Some witnesses said that the assailant blamed the brothers for Pantera's breakup and believed that they had stolen his lyrics. Paul and Kakaha later joined the band Hellyeah (pictured). Damageplan has been inactive since the incident. (Full article...)

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... that the Inter-Allied Women's Conference, which opened in Paris 100 years ago today, marked the first time women were granted formal participation in an international treaty negotiation (conference organizer Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger pictured)?
... that mountaineer Mary Jobe Akeley was hailed as "the first white person and probably the first human being" to explore a remote peak in the Canadian Rockies that she called "Big Ice Mountain"?
... that Typhoon Ofelia was the worst typhoon to hit eastern Taiwan in 30 years?
... that James Park Woods was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1918 for leading a small squad in the capture of a "very formidable" enemy post and the subsequent repulsion of multiple counterattacks?
... that the 1954 social psychology book The Nature of Prejudice is considered a classic that defined the field of intergroup relations?
... that Wilhelm Kempf, Bishop of Limburg from 1949 to 1981, took part in the Second Vatican Council and introduced its innovations in his diocese, including spiritual discourse and open dialogue?
... that Alabama's 28-point loss against Clemson in the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship was their worst-ever defeat under head coach Nick Saban?
... that Geoff Harvey, former musical director for the Nine Network Australia, composed the theme song for The Sullivans for his wife's cousin's wedding?

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Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to eight serial killings in Toronto, Canada, and is sentenced to life in prison.
In American football, the New England Patriots defeat the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl (MVP Julian Edelman pictured).
Both the United States and Russia suspend the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
In association football, the AFC Asian Cup concludes with Qatar defeating Japan in the final.

On this day

February 10

Joseph Lister

1355 – A tavern dispute between University of Oxford students and townsfolk turned into a riot that left about 90 people dead.
1763 – Britain, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris to end the Seven Years' War, significantly reducing the size of the French colonial empire while at the same time marking the beginning of an extensive period of British dominance outside of Europe.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists concluded their conquest of Catalonia and sealed the border with France.
1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben Day dots, speech balloons, and comic imagery sourcing.
2009 – The first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit took place when Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collided, destroying each other.

Royal Cortissoz (b. 1869) · Joseph Lister (pictured) (d. 1912) · Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)

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The Temple Church is a church in the City of London located between Fleet Street and the River Thames, built by the Knights Templar as their English headquarters. It was consecrated on 10 February 1185 by Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem. It is a round church, a common design feature for Knights Templar churches, and is now jointly owned by the Inner Temple and Middle Temple Inns of Court, bases of the English legal profession. The surrounding area, known as Temple, is named after the church.

This is a photograph looking east from the chancel towards the altar.

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Photograph: Diliff

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