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, 28,985,760 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.
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
- 1814 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
- 1863 –The fire extinguisher is patented.
- 1906 –HMS Dreadnought is launched.
- 1936 –Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
- 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.
- 1996 –The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
- 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.
Who were born on February 10?
- 1744 –William Cornwallis, Royal Navy admiral (d.1819)
- 1903 –Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
- 1929 –Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
- 1934 –Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
- 1952 –Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean politician
- 1955 –Greg Norman, Australian golfer
- 1964 –Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
- 1970 –Melissa Doyle, Australian TV personality
- 1978 –Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
- 1987 –Choi Siwon, South Korean singer (Super Junior)
Who died on February 10?
- 1686 –William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
- 1904 –John A. Roche, American politician (b. 1844)
- 1917 –John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
- 1923 –Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
- 1932 –Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
- 1960 –Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
- 1966 –Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
- 2000 –Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
- 2002 –Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2002 –Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s secretary (b. 1920)
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