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.
  • 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.
  • 1814 –
    Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
  • 1840 –
    Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1996 –
    The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
  • 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.

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