10th February anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1609
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of John Suckling, English Cavalier poet, dramatist and lyricist, also credited with inventing the card game cribbage"
• event
  • 1258
  • Mongolia
  • The Mongols captured and destroyed Baghdad
  • 1355
  • Great Britain
  • "St Scholastica's Day riot, Oxford – armed clashes between locals and students (Town versus Gown)"
  • 1763
  • Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years War
  • 1840
  • Great Britain
  • Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
  • 1906
  • Great Britain
  • Royal Navy launches the first 'Dreadnought' battleship
  • 1933
  • United States
  • "The first singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegram Company, New York."
  • 1949
  • United States
  • The play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller opened on Broadway
  • 1983
  • Great Britain
  • British civil servant Dennis Nilsen was arrested in London after police discovered the remains of multiple murder victims in drains near his home
  • 1998
  • United States
  • An American college dropout became the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace.
• Death
  • 1567
  • Great Britain
  • Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion
  • 1758
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Thomas Ripley, English architect"
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • "Sir William Howard Russell died 1907 (born 1820). He made his name as a journalist for The Times reporting the Crimean War. He was armed, but did not fight, and was allowed to send uncensored despatches, some of which proved of use to the enemy. He referr"