On this day …
February 10, 2018
- In 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War.
- In 1840, Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
- In 1870, the YWCA was founded in New York City.
- In 1923, Texas Tech University was founded in Lubbock.
- In 1962, captured American pilot Francis Gary Powers was exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- In 1989, Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee to become the first African American to lead a major American political party.
- In 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer defeated chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.
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