February 10 - Events

Events

• 1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
• 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
• 1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
• 1567 – An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband ofMary, Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
• 1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
• 1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then onFebruary 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
• 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
• 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
• 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
• 1863 – The fire extinguisher is patented.
• 1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
• 1904 – The Russo-Japanese War over Korea and Manchuria begins after the Battle of Port Arthur.
• 1906 – HMS Dreadnought is launched.
• 1920 – Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
• 1931 – New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
• 1933 – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
• 1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
• 1942 – Japanese submarine bombards Midway Atoll.
• 1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
• 1954 – 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.
• 1964 – Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
• 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
• 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a majorAmerican political party.
• 1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
• 1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
• 2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.