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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_10" title="February 10">February 10</a></b>: Feast day of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholastica" title="Scholastica">Saint Scholastica</a></b> (Christianity); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year" title="Chinese New Year">Chinese New Year</a></b> (2024); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Memorial_Day_of_the_Exiles_and_Foibe" title="National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe">National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe</a></b> in Italy
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1355" title="1355">1355</a> – A tavern dispute between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a> students and townspeople <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Scholastica_Day_riot" title="St Scholastica Day riot">became a riot</a></b> that left about 90 people dead.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Allied_Women%27s_Conference" title="Inter-Allied Women's Conference">Inter-Allied Women's Conference</a></b> opened as a counterpart to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Conference_(1919%E2%80%931920)" title="Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)">Paris Peace Conference</a>, marking the first time that women were allowed formal participation in an international treaty negotiation.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939" title="1939">1939</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain" title="Francoist Spain">Nationalists</a> concluded their <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia_Offensive" title="Catalonia Offensive">conquest of Catalonia</a></b> and sealed the border with France.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – The first accidental <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervelocity" title="Hypervelocity">hypervelocity</a> collision between two intact <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite" title="Satellite">satellites</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit" title="Low Earth orbit">low Earth orbit</a> took place when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_33" title="Iridium 33">Iridium 33</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_2251" title="Kosmos 2251">Kosmos 2251</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision" title="2009 satellite collision">destroyed each other</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Remsen" title="Ira Remsen">Ira Remsen</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1846); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Clarke" title="Edith Clarke">Edith Clarke</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1883); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister" title="Joseph Lister">Joseph Lister</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1912); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Curran" title="Joan Curran">Joan Curran</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1999)</p>
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