Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 10:
1932 – Edgar Wallace, British thriller writer, died.
1947 – Treaty of Paris signed among five victor nations.
1962 – Roy Lichtenstein’s first solo exhibit opens.
1996 – An IBM computer called Deep Blue made chess history by comfortably beating world champion Garry Kasparov, the first victory of a machine over a reigning world champion under classic tournament rules. Kasparov went on to beat the computer in later matches.
1998 – Tribal Shanti Bahini guerrillas fighting for autonomy in Bangladesh surrendered, ending a 25-year insurgency in which more than 8,500 people were killed.
1998 – Former French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann, a founding father of the European Union, died.
2001 – The International Space Station became the largest structure in space with the addition of the $1.4 billion science module Destiny.
2005 – Playwright Arthur Miller, a titan of American theatre who wrote “Death of a Salesman” and was revered for works that spoke for the common man, died aged 89.
2006 – Mexican painter and sculptor Juan Soriano, whose large sculptures adorn public spaces in Mexico’s capital, died. He was 85.
2007 – U.S. Senator Barack Obama announces candidacy for president.
2018 – Israeli F-16 hit by Syrian missile.
(Reuters)
