February
10
Feast of
St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)
Fenkil Day (Eritrea)
National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe, commemorate Italian
Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and Foibe massacres (Italy, especially
in Trieste)
Events
1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford,
England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two
days.
1863 – The fire extinguisher is patented.
1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov
for the first time.
2005 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons.
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