About February 10

February 10, 2021 is the 41st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 2 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1942 –
    Japanese submarine bombards Midway Atoll.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2009 –
    The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

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