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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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