About February 10

February 10, 2024 is the 41st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 325 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

What Happened On February 10

  • 1258 –
    Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
  • 1306 –
    In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
  • 1355 –
    The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
  • 1567 –
    An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
  • 1840 –
    Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
  • 1846 –
    First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
  • 1870 –
    The YWCA is founded in New York City.
  • 1906 –
    HMS Dreadnought is launched.
  • 1910 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
  • 1933 –
    The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
  • 1942 –
    Japanese submarine bombards Midway Atoll.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
  • 1947 –
    Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
  • 1962 –
    Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
  • 1964 –
    Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
  • 1981 –
    A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
  • 1989 –
    Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
  • 1996 –
    The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
  • 1998 –
    Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
  • 2005 –
    North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons.

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