February 10<\/p>\n
1258 \u2013 Under the command of Hulagu Khan, the Mongol Hoard takes Baghdad after a 13 day siege<\/p>\n
1502 \u2013 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.[3]<\/p>\n
1763 \u2013 The Treaty of Paris officially ends the French and Indian War in North America.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.<\/p>\n
1923 \u2013 Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas<\/p>\n
1933 \u2013 In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, who dies 4 days later.<\/p>\n
1962 \u2013 Captured American U2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.<\/p>\n
1967 \u2013 The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.<\/p>\n
1996 \u2013 The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue<\/em> defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 10 1258 \u2013 Under the command of Hulagu Khan, the Mongol Hoard takes Baghdad after a 13 day siege 1502 \u2013 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.[3] 1763 \u2013 The Treaty of Paris officially ends the French and Indian War in North America. 1861 \u2013 Jefferson … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89934,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64687\/revisions\/89934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}