In History, Today on February 10

The Mongols, led by Hulagu Khan, capture Baghdad, effectively ending the Islamic Golden Age and the Abbasid Caliphate.

The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Seven Years' War and marking the beginning of British dominance outside Europe.

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo."

American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in Berlin, during the Cold War.

World chess champion Garry Kasparov defeats the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a six-game match.

North Korea publicly announced for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons, withdrawing from the six-party talks aimed at curbing its nuclear ambitions.

Two satellites, an Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Russian military satellite, collided in orbit, marking the first major collision between two satellites in space.

The Carnival Triumph cruise ship experienced an engine room fire, leaving it adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4,000 people on board, leading to significant media coverage and scrutiny of cruise ship safety.

Shirley Temple, the iconic American child actress and diplomat, passed away at the age of 85.

The ceasefire agreement known as Minsk II was signed in an attempt to halt the conflict in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists.

The World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa no longer constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.