About February 10
February 10, 2025 is the 41st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 372 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 10
- 1258 –Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
- 1763 –French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
- 1814 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
- 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.
- 1920 –Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
- 1923 –Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
- 1933 –In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
- 1936 –Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
- 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.
- 1948 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1954 –President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
- 1964 –Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
- 1967 –The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- 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.
- 1998 –Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
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