Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 10

February 10:

• 1258 - Hulagu Khan and the Mongols sacked and burned Baghdad, a cultural and commercial centre of the Islamic world at the time, ending the rule of the Abbasid caliphate.
• 1763 - Britain and Spain partitioned New France by the Treaty of Paris, and decimated the French colonial empire.
• 1840 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (pictured) married Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom at the Chapel Royal.
• 1962 - "Rudolf Abel," a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Gary Powers, the pilot of an U.S. Air Force spy plane shot down in the U-2 Incident.
• 1996 - Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer, defeated International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in a game of chess for the first time.

Recent days: February 9 – February 8 – February 7

More anniversaries:

• January 31
• February 1
• February 2