Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 10
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February 10: Festival of Muharram in Shi'a Islam (2005, A.H. 1426 begins)
- 1258 - Hulagu Khan and the Mongols sacked Baghdad, 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 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