Memory of the day: First US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane in 1863

CAIRO – 10 February 2022: In the following lines, ET sheds light on the most important world events that took place on February 10.

1258 - The fall of Baghdad to the Mongols, marking the end of the Abbasid Caliphate.

1863 - American inventor Alanson Crane receives a patent for the first fire-extinguishing device in the United States.

2008 - Egypt's national football team wins the 26th African Nations Cup in Ghana for the sixth time in its history.