Today in History
February 10
1996: Kasparov-versus-computer chess match
On this day in 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov began a six-round match against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer built by IBM. Kasparov claimed a 4-2 victory (though Deep Blue won a rematch the following year).
On this day in 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov began a six-round match against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer built by IBM. Kasparov claimed a 4-2 victory (though Deep Blue won a rematch the following year).
1990: The spacecraft Galileo flew past Venus on its way to Jupiter.
1962: U.S. airman Francis Gary Powers, captured pilot of the U-2 plane downed by the Soviet Union in 1960, was exchanged for jailed Soviet informant Rudolf Abel.
1763: The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending territorial conflicts between France and Britain in the Seven Years' War, the North American phase of which was called the French and Indian War.
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