Tuesday, the 10th of February, 2015 is the 41th day in 2015 and in the 7th calendar week.
General Events:
Extraterrestrial Culture Day/Extraterrestrial Visitor Day
February 10, 2015 in New Mexico
New Mexicans celebrate every second Tuesday in February as “Extraterrestrial Culture Day” after a Roswell lawmaker’s proposal won approval in the House. Sponsor of the memorial, Republican Rep. Daniel Foley, of Roswell, said life on other planets — if you believe in it — surely has its own set of cultural beliefs.
The measure claims extraterrestrials have contributed to recognition of New Mexico. The state has been associated with little green men for more than half a century, starting in 1947 with a purported UFO crash that came to be known as the Roswell Incident.
Memorials express the opinion of the Legislature and do not have the force of law. Only one house must approve them, and they do not require the governor’s signature.
Get the kettle on and set the table for a guest, ET might just be popping round!
Where is the event?
Nationwide New Mexico
Plimsoll Day
February 10, 2015 in the World
Plimsoll Day is set aside to remember Samuel Plimsoll (10 February 1824 – 3 June 1898), a member of the English Parliament back in the day who championed sailors’ safety while traveling the world’s waterways in crammed-full ships. He was instrumental in the amendment of Britain’s Merchant Shipping Act, which came about in response to the then-national problem of dangerously overloaded ships. Plimsoll’s bill, dubbed the Unseaworthy Ships Bill, passed in 1876, and required that a mark be present on a ship’s hull to indicate the waterline at which maximum cargo capacity was reached for the vessel.
Ah, but politics is a wily profession, is it not? For the law merely required that said line – which came to be known as the Plimsoll Line, or the Plimsoll Mark, – be painted on the boat. It did not say the line had to be an accurate representation of the safe waterline position for the ship’s cargo load. That little stipulation didn’t make it’s way into law until 1894.
Today, the Plimsoll Line is universally recognized, and is actually several lines – each one indicating the safe waterline mark in relation to both cargo type and water type (salinity, temperature, ocean region, and season).
Where is the event?
Worldwide
Umbrella Day 2015
February 10, 2015 in the World
Umbrella Day takes place on February 10, 2015. The day honors the famous invention to protect against rain or sunlight. An umbrella or parasol is a canopy designed to protect against rain or sunlight. The word parasol usually refers to an item designed to protect from the sun; umbrella refers to a device more suited to protect from rain.
Umbrellas are now a consumer product with a large global market. Umbrellas continue to be actively developed. In the US, so many umbrella-related patents are being filed that the U.S. Patent Office employs four full-time examiners to assess them. As of 2008, the office registered three thousand active patents on umbrella-related inventions.
Where is the event?
Worldwide
National Cream Cheese Brownie Day
February 10, 2015 in the USA
Who can resist the heavenly taste of a rich fudge brownie marbled with cream cheese? Its divine combination of sweet and tangy flavors will have you craving more in no time!
The brownie is America’s favorite bar cookie. Although desserts called “brownies” have been around since the 1800s, the cake-like confection we know and love today can be traced back to 1906. Culinary historians credit The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book with the first published recipe for the modern brownie, but this early recipe was far less chocolaty than what we’re accustomed to nowadays. It only called for two squares of baking chocolate!
Today there are hundreds of different brownie recipes. Many incorporate interesting add-ins like peanut butter, walnuts, caramel, peppermint, banana, or (of course) cream cheese. Celebrate National Cream Cheese Brownie Day by enjoying the sweet, rich, and creamy flavors of a cream cheese brownie!
Where is the event?
Nationwide USA
Historical Events on 10th February:
1355 – The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1535 – 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1720 – Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1763 – Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain
1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then onFebruary 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
1824 – Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1855 – US citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1890 – Around 11 million acres ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
1899 – Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish-American War is signed by President McKinley; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam
1915 – US President Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans
1931 – New Delhi becomes capital of India
1940 – “In The Mood” by Glenn Miller hits #1
1940 – Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
1952 – India holds its first general election: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power
1954 – Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1955 – The US Navy evacuate 1000s from Tachen Islands in the Pacific
1974 – Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
1987 – Philippine troops murder 17 civilians in Lupao Massacre
1991 – Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
1996 – IBM computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov
1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon that law.
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