February 10

On This Day In History
	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, in which Kasparov claimed a 4–2 victory (though Deep Blue won a rematch the following year).
Garry Kasparov playing against Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer built by IBM.
Biography Of The Day
	Mark Spitz American swimmer Mark Spitz, born this day in 1950, became the first athlete to capture seven gold medals in a single Olympics, winning four individual and three team events at the 1972 Games in Munich, West Germany.
Mark Spitz competing at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, West Germany
More Events On This Day In History
	1990 The spacecraft Galileo flew past Venus on its way to Jupiter.
1962	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.
	1898 German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg.
1846	1846 The British conquered the Sikhs in northwestern India in the Battle of Sobraon, the most decisive engagement of the First Sikh War.
1837	1837 Russian author Aleksandr Pushkin was killed in a duel defending his wife's honour.
1763	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.