What events happened on February 10?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – World Pulses Day.
🇺🇳 International Arab Leopard Day.
🌏 World Cinema Day.
🌏 Iron’s Birthday.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Umbrella Day.
🇪🇷 Eritrea – Fennel Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Alexander Pushkin Memorial Day.
🇨🇳 China – Chinese New Year.
🇮🇶 Iraq – Kurdish Writers’ Day.
🇮🇹 Italy – Day of Remembrance for Victims of Feyba.
🇩🇪 Germany – Children’s Hospice Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Volunteer Defense Corps Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Diplomatic Personnel Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 754 – The Cathedral of the Hierarchs of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (iconoclastic) was opened.
– 1074 – The Divan-u-Lug’atut is completed by the Turk Mahmud Kashgari.
– 1258 – The Mongols under Huluk capture Baghdad, ending the Abbasid dynasty.
– 1354 – Clashes between students and the population on St. Scholastica’s Day.
– 1636 – Iron’s birthday.
– 1763 – The Treaty of Paris is signed between France and Spain, ending the Seven Years’ War.
– 1772 – Franz Joseph I von Liechtenstein becomes Prince of Liechtenstein.
– 1784 – By decree of Catherine II, the port and fortress in Crimea are renamed Sevastopol.
– 1828 – Four English shepherds kill more than 30 Tasmanian civilians at Cape Grim, north of Tasmania.
– 1841 – Napoleon’s Six-Day War: Russian army corps is crushed.
– 1837 – Pushkin dies from a serious wound in a duel.
– 1841 – The British North America Act is officially promulgated. A single province of Canada is created.
– 1846 – The First Anglo-Sikh War begins.
– 1906 – The British battleship “Dreadnought” is launched. It was the best ship of its time.
– 1918 – The Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid dies at the age of 76.
– 1920 – The ceremony of annexing Poland to the sea takes place in Putsk.
– 1931 – Delhi becomes the capital of India.
– 1939 – Syrdarya in the Syrdarya region and Dangara in the Fergana region were established.
– 1939 – Civil War in Spain: General Franco’s troops occupied Catalonia, and the Republicans were deprived of access to the French border from Spain.
– 1940 – The cartoon “Tom and Jerry” was released.
– 1943 – Construction of the Farkhod hydroelectric power station began through a nationwide hashar.
– 1945 – The S-13 submarine sank the ship “General von Steuben”.
– 1947 – Peace treaties were signed in Paris between the victorious countries of World War II and the former allies of Nazi Germany – Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland (entered into force on September 15, 1947).
– 1962 – Soviet intelligence officer Rudolf Abel is exchanged for American pilot Francis Power.
– 1986 – A major trial of the Sicilian mafia begins in Palermo.
– 1992 – The US Air Force begins delivering American humanitarian aid to the CIS countries (Operation Sharing Hope).
– 1994 – The Brazilian Space Agency is established.
– 1995 – In Almaty, ten CIS countries sign an agreement on the creation of a joint CIS air defense system.
– 1996 – The first chess match between Garry Kasparov and the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer begins.
– 1997 – The first issue of the magazine “Nurse” is published.
– 1998 – The death penalty is abolished in Azerbaijan and replaced with life imprisonment.
– 1998 – The anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina was adopted.
– 2005 – The DPRK Foreign Ministry for the first time publicly announced the creation of nuclear weapons in the country.
– 2006 – A sarcophagus was found in the Valley of the Kings
– 2006 – The XX Winter Olympic Games opened in Turin (Italy).
– 2009 – For the first time in the history of cosmonautics, two satellites collided in Earth’s orbit.
– 2013 – Parliamentary elections in Monaco.
– 2015 – The murder of students in Chapel Hill (USA).
– 2015 – The shelling of Kramatorsk during the war in Donbass.
