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.
- 1814 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
- 1840 –Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
- 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.
- 1923 –Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
- 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.
- 1954 –President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
- 1962 –Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- 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.
- 1989 –Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
- 1998 –Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
- 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.
- 2043 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
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