- 1258 - Hulagu Khan and the Mongols sacked and burned Baghdad, a cultural and commercial centre of the Islamic world at the time, 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 (pictured) 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 a U.S. Air Force spy plane shot down in the U-2 Incident.
- 1996 - Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first game won by a chess-playing computer against a reigning International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions.
Recent days: February 9 – February 8 – February 7
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- 1258 - Hulagu Khan and the Mongols sacked and burned Baghdad, a cultural and commercial centre of the Islamic world at the time, 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 (pictured) 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 a U.S. Air Force spy plane shot down in the U-2 Incident.
- 1996 - Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first game won by a chess-playing computer against a reigning International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions.
Recent days: February 9 – February 8 – February 7
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