February 10: Day of the Week
February 10, 2023 is the 41st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.
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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
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February 10 Historical Event(s)
- 1306In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
- 1355The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
- 1840Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
- 1846First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
- 1906HMS Dreadnought is launched.
- 1920Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
- 1948New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1954President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
- 1989Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
- 1998Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
Who were born on February 10?
- 1785Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1836)
- 1884Frederick Hawksworth, British railroad mechanical engineer (d. 1976)
- 1892Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
- 1898Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
- 1943Bill Laskey, American football player
- 1964Glenn Beck, American author, radio and television host
- 1966Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
- 1979Jumaine Jones, American basketball player
- 1983Bless, Canadian rapper
- 1986Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
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