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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1947 –Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2043 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
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