A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, February 10th!

1258	Huegu, a Mongol leader, seizes Baghdad, bringing and end to the Abbasid caliphate.
1620	Supporters of Marie de Medici, the queen mother, who has been exiled to Blois, are defeated by the king’s troops at Ponts de Ce, France.
1763	The Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War. France gives up all her territories in the New World except New Orleans and a few scattered islands.
1799	Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Cairo, Egypt, for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men. Napoleon Bonaparte
1814	Napoleon personally directs lightning strikes against enemy columns advancing toward Paris, beginning with a victory over the Russians at Champaubert.
1840	Britain’s Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.
1846	Led by religious leader Brigham Young, the first Mormons begin a long westward exodus from Nauvoo, Il., to Utah.
1863	P.T. Barnum’s star midgets, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, are married. Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren
1904	Russia and Japan declare war on each other.
1915	President Wilson blasts the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to deceive the Germans.
1939	Japanese occupy island of Hainan in French Indochina.
1941	London severs diplomatic relations with Romania.
1941	Iceland is attacked by German planes.
1942	The war halts civilian car production at Ford.
1945	B-29s hit the Tokyo area.
1955	Bell Aircraft displays a fixed-wing vertical takeoff plane.
1960	Adolph Coors, the beer brewer, is kidnapped in Golden, Colo.
1962	The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for a Soviet spy held by the United States.
1964	Bob Dylan’s album “The Times They Are A-Changin”‘ was released.
1966	Protester David Miller is convicted of burning his draft card.
1967	The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect.
1979	The Metropolitan Museum announces the first major theft in 110-year history, $150,000 Greek marble head.
1986	The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opens in Palermo, Italy.
1989	Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African-American to head a major U.S. political party. Ron Brown
2003	Iraq agreed to allow U-2 surveillance flights over its territory, meeting a key demand by U.N. inspectors searching for banned weapons; President George W. Bush brushed aside Iraqi concessions as too little, too late.
2004	Rapper-producer Kanye West’s debut CD, “The College Dropout,” was released.
2005	North Korea boasted publicly for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons.
2007	Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., kicked off his presidential campaign with a speech at the state house in Springfield, Ill.
2007	Gen. David Petraeus took charge of U.S. forces in Iraq.
2011	Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down or leave the country and instead handed his powers to his vice president.

Today in History facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, and HistoryOrb.com.