February 10
1258 Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
1306 In front of the high altar of Greyfriar's Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1840 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1861 Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1870 The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1906 The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched, representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships.
1933 In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
1942 The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
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.
1954 United States 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.
1996 IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
2009 The first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit took place when Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collided and destroyed each other.
Births
1775 Charles Lamb; 1846 Lord Charles Beresford; 1890 Boris Pasternak; 1892 Alan Hale,
Sr.; 1893 Jimmy Durante; 1898 Bertolt Brecht; 1901 Stella Adler; 1905 Chick Webb; 1906 Lon Chaney, Jr. (he was seen walking with the Queen, doin the werewolves of London); 1927 Leontyne Price; 1929 Jerry Goldsmith; 1930 Robert Wagner; 1939 Roberta Flack; 1944 Peter Allen; 1950 Mark Spitz; 1955 Jim Cramer; 1955 Greg Norman; 1959 John Calipari; 1961 George Stephanopoulos; 1962 Cliff Burton

(Metallica); 1964 Glenn Beck

; 1967 Laura Dern; 1967 Vince Gilligan; 1974 Elizabeth Banks; 1982 Justin Gatlin

; 1991 Emma Roberts; 1997 Chloλ Grace Moretz
Deaths
1837 Alexander Pushkin; 1923 Wilhelm Rφntgen; 1957 Laura Ingalls Wilder; 1966 Billy Rose; 1992 Alex Haley; 2000 Jim Varney; 2005 Arthur Miller; 2008 Roy Scheider; 2010 Charles Wilson; 2014 Shirley Temple; 2015 -
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