First electronics show opens in Dubai
1993 - Shaikh Hasher Maktoum, Dubai Director of Information, inaugurated the first Middle East Consumer Electronics Show at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The show in halls two and three of the Trade Centre features a wide array of consumer electronics goods. It will run for five days and it will be open in the morning session for trade visitors and general public in the evening. The show kicked off successfully with some stands reporting serious inquiries within the first hour. Most of the exhibitors are introducing new lines of products. Oman National, distributors for National Panasonic, is using the show as a launch pad for its latest in video, Technics midi-systems and a portable TV/video with hi-fi stereo. The computerised drawing robot is becoming a big hit.
February 10
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1811 - Russians take Belgrade and capture Turkish army.
1817 - Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia agree to first reduction of occupation forces in France.
1828 - Simon Bolivar, South American revolutionary, becomes ruler of Colombia.
1840 - Britain’s Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.
1846 - British forces under Hugh Gough defeat Sikhs at Sobrahan, India.
1933 - The first singing telegram is sung in the United States.
1952 - India held its first general election since independence.
1964 - Royal Australian Navy destroyer Voyager sinks after collision with HMAS Melbourne off Jervis Bay, more than 80 die.
1981 - American journalist Cynthia Dwyer is released after nine months in an Iranian jail.
1989 - Jamaican-born Tony Robinson became the first black Sheriff of Nottingham, England.
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2000 - Ariana airlines hijack ends in London after four days.
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2005 - Saudi men cast their votes in the first ever municipal elections billed as a key step towards reforms.
2009 - A container ship and a gas tanker collide off the coast of Dubai.
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