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 – Chloë Grace Moretz
Deaths
1837 – Alexander Pushkin; 1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen; 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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