February 10 has seen treaties reshape continents, scientific milestones achieved, and justice served.
Mongol forces under Hulagu Khan captured and sacked Baghdad, destroying the Abbasid Caliphate. The destruction of the city's libraries and cultural institutions was one of the greatest losses of knowledge in history.
The Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War between Britain and France. France ceded Canada and all territory east of the Mississippi to Britain, reshaping North America.
Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. Their devoted marriage would produce nine children and reshape European royal families.
The first group of Latter-day Saints departed Nauvoo, Illinois, beginning the great Mormon migration westward. They would eventually establish Salt Lake City in present-day Utah.
Glenn Miller received the first gold record for his recording of 'Chattanooga Choo Choo,' which had sold over one million copies. The RCA Victor gold-sprayed disc started a music industry tradition.
American U-2 spy pilot Francis Gary Powers was exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel on the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin. The Cold War prisoner swap became the subject of the film 'Bridge of Spies.'
IBM's Deep Blue chess computer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in a game, the first time a computer had beaten a reigning world champion under tournament conditions.