About February 10

February 10, 2020 is the 41st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 325 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 368 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.
  • 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
  • 1906 –
    HMS Dreadnought is launched.
  • 1910 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
  • 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.
  • 1933 –
    The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
  • 1936 –
    Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2009 –
    The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

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