February 10

February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining until the end of the year (325 in leap years).

Events

• 1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
• 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
• 1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
• 1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
• 1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
• 1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
• 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
• 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
• 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
• 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• 1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
• 1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
• 1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
• 1920 – Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
• 1930 – Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina
• 1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaff dies 4 days later.
• 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
• 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
• 1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
• 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
• 1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
• 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.
• 1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
• 1964 – Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
• 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
• 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
• 1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
• 1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
• 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.
• 2009 – The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
• 2013 – 36 people are killed and 39 injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.

Births

• 1499 – Thomas Platter, Swiss scholar (d. 1582)
• 1524 – Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician (d. 1580)
• 1606 – Christine Marie of France (d. 1663)
• 1609 – John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
• 1685 – Aaron Hill, English playwright (d. 1750)
• 1696 – Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (d. 1765)
• 1744 – William Cornwallis, English admiral (d.1819)
• 1775 – Charles Lamb, English author (d. 1834)
• 1783 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
• 1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1836)
• 1795 – Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
• 1824 – Samuel Plimsoll, English politician (d. 1898)
• 1846 – Lord Charles Beresford, Irish admiral and politician (d. 1919)
• 1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
• 1847 – Nabinchandra Sen, Bengali poet (d. 1909)
• 1859 – Alexandre Millerand, French politician, 12th President of France (d. 1943)
• 1868 – William Allen White, American Progressive writer and journalist (d. 1944)
• 1879 – Ernst Põdder, Estonian military commander (d. 1932)
• 1881 – Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (d. 1954)
• 1884 – Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (d. 1976)
• 1888 – Alexander Cudmore, American soccer player (d. 1944)
• 1888 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist, academic and poet (d. 1970)
• 1890 – Fanni Kaplan, Russian activist and rebel (d. 1918)
• 1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1892 – Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
• 1893 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
• 1893 – Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
• 1894 – Harold Macmillan, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
• 1895 – John Black, English chairman of Standard-Triumph (d. 1965)
• 1897 – Judith Anderson, Australian-American actress (d. 1992)
• 1897 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
• 1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
• 1898 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (d. 1979)
• 1901 – Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
• 1903 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
• 1904 – John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1963)
• 1905 – Walter A. Brown, American businessman (d. 1964)
• 1905 – Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (d. 1939)
• 1906 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
• 1906 – Erik Rhodes, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (d. 2000)
• 1910 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
• 1910 – Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress (d. 1978)
• 1913 – Douglas Slocombe, English cinematographer
• 1913 – Bill White, Australian rugby player (d. 1969)
• 1914 – Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Alex Comfort, English physician and author (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Neva Patterson, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1920 – José Manuel Castañón, Spanish lawyer and author (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian politician, 1st President of Hungary
• 1924 – Max Ferguson, Canadian radio host (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Danny Blanchflower, Irish footballer (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Leontyne Price, American soprano
• 1927 – Brian Priestman, English conductor and educator
• 1927 – William Tetley, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
• 1929 – Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer
• 1930 – E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Robert Wagner, American actor
• 1933 – Jay Conrad Levinson, American educator and author (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Richard Schickel, American journalist, author, and critic
• 1933 – Faramarz Payvar, Iranian santur player and composer (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
• 1934 – Leonhard Merzin, Estonian actor (d. 1990)
• 1935 – John Alcorn, American illustrator (d. 1992)
• 1935 – Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer and conductor
• 1937 – Roberta Flack, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1939 – Adrienne Clarkson, Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician, 26th Governor-General of Canada
• 1939 – Enver Ören, Turkish businessman (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Peter Purves, English actor
• 1940 – Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh, Saudi Arabian scholar, 4th Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia
• 1940 – Mary Rand, English long jumper
• 1940 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Michael Apted, English director and producer
• 1943 – Ral Donner, American singer (d. 1984)
• 1943 – Stephen Gammell, American children's book illustrator
• 1943 – Bill Laskey, American football player
• 1944 – Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1992)
• 1944 – Frank Keating, American politician, 25th Governor of Oklahoma
• 1944 – Frances Moore Lappé, American author and activist
• 1944 – Rufus Reid, American bassist (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra)
• 1944 – Vernor Vinge, American author
• 1946 – Eliot Wald, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1947 – Louise Arbour, Canadian jurist
• 1947 – Butch Morris, American cornet player, composer, and conductor (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Nicholas Owen, English journalist
• 1948 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
• 1948 – Conrad Cummings, American composer
• 1949 – Jim Corcoran, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 – Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
• 1949 – Nigel Olsson, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Spencer Davis Group and Plastic Penny)
• 1949 – Harold Sylvester, American actor
• 1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer
• 1951 – Bob Iger, American businessman
• 1952 – Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
• 1954 – Larry McWilliams, American baseball player
• 1955 – Christopher Adams, English wrestler (d. 2001)
• 1955 – Jim Cramer, American financier and author, co-founded TheStreet.com
• 1955 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer
• 1956 – Enele Sopoaga, Tuvaluan politician and diplomat
• 1957 – Ochirbatyn Dashbalbar, Mongolian poet and politician (d. 1999)
• 1957 – Briony McRoberts, English actress (d. 2013)
• 1958 – Michael Weiss, American pianist and composer
• 1959 – John Calipari, American basketball coach
• 1959 – Dennis Gentry, American football player
• 1959 – Lisa McPherson, American homicide victim (d. 1995)
• 1960 – Robert Addie, English actor (d. 2003)
• 1961 – Theo Gries, German footballer
• 1961 – Alexander Payne, American director and screenwriter
• 1961 – George Stephanopoulos, American journalist
• 1962 – Cliff Burton, American bass player and songwriter (Metallica, Trauma, and EZ-Street) (d. 1986)
• 1962 – Bobby Czyz, American boxer
• 1962 – Piero Pelù, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Litfiba)
• 1962 – Randy Velischek, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 – Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
• 1963 – Philip Glenister, English actor
• 1964 – Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author
• 1964 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
• 1964 – Arthur Lenk, American-Israeli diplomat
• 1964 – Francesca Neri, Italian actress
• 1965 – Mario Jean, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1966 – Daryl Johnston, American football player
• 1966 – Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
• 1966 – Ji Suk-jin, South Korean comedian, actor, and singer
• 1967 – Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer
• 1967 – Jacky Durand, French cyclist
• 1967 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (d. 1999)
• 1967 – Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and X-Files writer/executive producer.
• 1968 – Matthias Hamann, German footballer
• 1968 – Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1968 – Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut
• 1968 – Atika Suri, Indonesian journalist
• 1969 – Laurie Dhue, American journalist
• 1969 – Joe Mangrum, American painter
• 1970 – Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player
• 1970 – Melissa Doyle, Australian journalist
• 1970 – Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese race car driver
• 1970 – Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
• 1970 – Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
• 1970 – Iván Velázquez Caballero, Mexican drug lord
• 1971 – Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1971 – Lisa Marie Varon, American wrestler
• 1973 – Ivan O'Konnel-Bronin, Estonian football player and manager
• 1974 – Elizabeth Banks, American actress, director, and producer
• 1974 – Ty Law, American football player
• 1974 – Ivri Lider, Israeli singer-songwriter and producer (The Young Professionals)
• 1974 – Tanoai Reed, American actor and stuntman
• 1975 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player
• 1975 – Konstantin Nahk, Estonian footballer
• 1975 – Kool Savas, German-Turkish rapper (Masters of Rap)
• 1976 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player
• 1976 – Keeley Hawes, English actress
• 1976 – Carmelo Imbriani, Italian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1976 – Vedran Runje, Croatian footballer
• 1977 – Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
• 1978 – Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Joey Hand, American race car driver
• 1979 – Jumaine Jones, American basketball player
• 1979 – Daryl Palumbo, American singer-songwriter (Glassjaw and Head Automatica)
• 1979 – Ross Powers, American snowboarder
• 1979 – Kristen Viikmäe, Estonian footballer
• 1980 – César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1980 – Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
• 1980 – Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Bruno Sundov, Croatian basketball player
• 1981 – Christian Fickert, German footballer
• 1981 – Andrew Johnson, English footballer
• 1981 – Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Holly Willoughby, English model and television host
• 1982 – Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
• 1982 – Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
• 1982 – John Mooney, Irish cricketer
• 1982 – Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian footballer
• 1982 – Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Bless, Canadian rapper
• 1983 – Ricardo Clark, American soccer player
• 1983 – Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian gymnast
• 1983 – Vic Fuentes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pierce the Veil, Isles & Glaciers, and Cinematic Sunrise)
• 1983 – Taiji Ishimori, Japanese wrestler
• 1983 – James Ryan, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Brent Everett, Canadian porn actor and director
• 1984 – Alex Gordon, American baseball player
• 1984 – Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
• 1986 – Jeff Adrien, American basketball player
• 1986 – Josh Akognon, Nigerian-American basketball player
• 1986 – Radamel Falcao García, Colombian footballer
• 1986 – Roberto Jiménez Gago, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress, singer, and model
• 1986 – Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
• 1987 – Erin Burger, South African netball player
• 1987 – Jakub Kindl, Czech ice hockey player
• 1987 – Facundo Roncaglia, Argentine footballer
• 1987 – Yuja Wang, Chinese pianist
• 1988 – Daniil Ratnikov, Estonian footballer
• 1989 – Bunmi Mojekwu, English actress
• 1990 – Sooyoung, South Korean singer, actress, and dancer (Girls' Generation)
• 1991 – Emma Roberts, American actress and singer
• 1992 – Reinhold Yabo, German footballer
• 1992 – Misha B, English rapper
• 1994 – Makenzie Vega, American actress
• 1995 – Haruna Kawaguchi, Japanese model and actress
• 1996 – Christina Parie, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
• 1998 – Candy Hsu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1999 – Tiffany Espensen, Chinese-American actress

Deaths

• 1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
• 1162 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
• 1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
• 1278 – Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (b. 1202)
• 1576 – Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar (b. 1532)
• 1645 – Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1587)
• 1686 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
• 1722 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
• 1755 – Montesquieu, French philosopher (b. 1689)
• 1758 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1682)
• 1782 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
• 1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
• 1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (b. 1799)
• 1857 – David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
• 1865 – Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
• 1887 – Ellen Wood, English author (b. 1814)
• 1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
• 1904 – John A. Roche, American politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
• 1906 – Ezra Butler Eddy, American-Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1907 – Claude Whittindale, English rugby player (b. 1881)
• 1912 – Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon (b. 1827)
• 1913 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek long jumper (b. 1888)
• 1917 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-English painter (b. 1849)
• 1918 – Abdul Hamid II Ottoman sultan (b. 1842)
• 1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
• 1920 – Amedee Reyburn, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1879)
• 1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1928 – José Sánchez del Río Christian Martyr (b. 1913)
• 1932 – Edgar Wallace, English author and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1939 – Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
• 1944 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek astronomer (b. 1870)
• 1945 – Anacleto Díaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
• 1950 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
• 1950 – Herbert Nicol, English rugby player (b. 1873)
• 1952 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American biochemist (b. 1880)
• 1956 – Wilbert Coffin, Canadian murderer (b. 1915)
• 1956 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (b. 1872)
• 1956 – Emmanouil Tsouderos, Greek banker and politician, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1882)
• 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
• 1958 – Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach (b. 1899)
• 1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian engineer (b. 1905)
• 1966 – Billy Rose, American composer and songwriter (b. 1899)
• 1975 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav economist and politician (b. 1910)
• 1984 – David Von Erich, American wrestler (b. 1958)
• 1985 – Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (b. 1895)
• 1987 – Sadequain, Pakistani painter (b. 1930)
• 1990 – Bill Sherwood, American director and screenwriter (b. 1952)
• 1992 – Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
• 1995 – Paul Monette, American author and activist (b. 1945)
• 1997 – Brian Connolly, Scottish-English singer-songwriter (Sweet) (b. 1945)
• 1998 – Yorgos Vrasivanopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2001 – Abraham Beame, American politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
• 2001 – Buddy Tate, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Ramón Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker (b. 1964)
• 2002 – Traudl Junge, German secretary (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Curt Hennig, American wrestler and manager (b. 1958)
• 2003 – Clark MacGregor, American politician (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Albert J. Ruffo, American lawyer, politician, and educator (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Ron Ziegler, American politician, White House Press Secretary (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Guy Provost, Canadian actor (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
• 2006 – J Dilla, American rapper and producer (Slum Village) (b. 1974)
• 2006 – Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
• 2006 – Beko Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian doctor and activist (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Ned Austin, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Jeong Da-bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
• 2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Adeline Geo-Karis, American politician (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Steve Gerber, American author (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Leila Hadley, American author (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Jeremy Lusk, American motocross racer (b. 1984)
• 2010 – Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Enn Soosaar, Estonian publicist, columnist, and translator (b. 1937)
• 2010 – Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
• 2013 – W. Watts Biggers, American author and animator (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Sir John Gilmour, 4th Baronet, English soldier (b. 1944)
• 2013 – David Hartman, American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Bill Roost, English footballer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Eugenio Trías Sagnier, Spanish philosopher (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Ikuzo Sakurai, Japanese politician (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Zhuang Zedong, Chinese table tennis player (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Austreberta
  • Charalampe
  • Scholastica
  • February 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• 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)

External links

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• BBC: On This Day
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