What are the important events that happened on February 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 10: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 10 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 28, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,458,720 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tetracontahenagon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,068 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 10 Historical Events
- 1355 –The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
- 1814 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
- 1870 –The YWCA is founded in New York City.
- 1910 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 1920 –Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
- 1933 –The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
- 1964 –Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
- 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.
- 2009 –The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
Who were born on February 10?
- 1606 –Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
- 1785 –Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1836)
- 1892 –Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
- 1924 –Bud Poile, Canadian hockey player and executive (d. 2005)
- 1933 –Richard Schickel, American film critic
- 1947 –Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer
- 1978 –Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
- 1982 –Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
- 1984 –Alex Gordon, American baseball player
- 1986 –Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
Who died on February 10?
- 1126 –William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
- 1891 –Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
- 1923 –Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
- 1960 –Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
- 1966 –Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
- 1975 –Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
- 1984 –David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
- 1992 –Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
- 2004 –Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
- 2009 –Jeremy Lusk, American freestyle motocross racer (b. 1984)
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