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Kasparov-versus-computer chess match: 10 February 1996 - This Day in History
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).
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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.
1846: The British conquered the Sikhs in northwestern India in the Battle of Sobraon, the most decisive engagement of the First Sikh War.
1837: Russian author Aleksandr Pushkin was killed in a duel defending his wife's honour.
Mark Spitz: Biography of the Day
"There's nothing better in the world, when you're trying to be the best in the world, than to actually say, ‘I am the world record holder. I am the best in the world.'"Mark Spitz, 1999
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.
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