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

  • 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.
  • 1763 –
    French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
  • 1798 –
    Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
  • 1814 –
    Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
  • 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.
  • 1936 –
    Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2013 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Snake in Chinese astrology.

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