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 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 28, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,739,145,600 seconds 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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 372 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,434 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 10 Historical Events
- 1798 –Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
- 1840 –Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
- 1906 –HMS Dreadnought is launched.
- 1933 –In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
- 1942 –Japanese submarine bombards Midway Atoll.
- 1954 –President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
- 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.
- 2024 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on February 10?
- 1929 –Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer
- 1958 –Michael Weiss, American jazz pianist
- 1962 –Cliff Burton, American bass player (Metallica) (d. 1986)
- 1967 –Jacky Durand, French cyclist
- 1969 –Laurie Dhue, American television personality
- 1974 –Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
- 1979 –Daryl Palumbo, American musician
- 1981 –Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter
- 1981 –Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
- 1984 –Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
Who died on February 10?
- 1242 –Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
- 1645 –Dorothea Sophia, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1587)
- 1923 –Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
- 1932 –Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
- 1944 –Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer (b. 1870)
- 1957 –Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
- 1964 –Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
- 2001 –Abraham Beame, American politician (b. 1906)
- 2003 –Ron Ziegler, American press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
- 2010 –Fred Schaus, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1925)
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