On This Day for February 10 - Kasparov-versus-computer chess match, Mark Spitz is featured, and more

Created: 2020-02-10 11:02 Updated: 2020-02-10 11:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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February 10

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1950

Mark Spitz

Garry Kasparov playing against Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer built by IBM.

FEATURED EVENT

1996

Kasparov-versus-computer chess match

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2014: American actress and diplomat Shirley Temple —who cheered Depression-era moviegoers when she was a dimple-cheeked curly-haired child star and the top Hollywood box-office attraction from 1935 to 1939—died in California. [Watch a clip of Shirley Temple in The Little Princess.]

Arthur Miller, photograph by Inge Morath

2005: Arthur Miller—who was recognized as one of the most important playwrights of the mid-20th century, perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Death of a Salesman—died in Connecticut. [Sort fact from fiction in our Who Wrote It quiz .]

1957: American author Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote the popular Little House series of children's books, died. [Take our Classic Children's Books quiz .]

1898: German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg.

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.