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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1846 –
    First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
  • 1863 –
    The fire extinguisher is patented.
  • 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 –
    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.
  • 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.
  • 2003 –
    France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
  • 2005 –
    North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons.
  • 2009 –
    The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
  • 2043 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.

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