02-10-2005, 06:31 AM
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February 10th
1837 ~ Death of Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian Poet and Novelist.
1840 ~ Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1870 ~ The YWCA was founded in New York City.
1890 ~ Birthday of Boris Pasternak, Poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1958
1898 ~ Birthday of Bertolt Brecht, Author.
1927 ~ Birthday of Leontyne Price, Soprano.
1949 ~ Death of a Salesman opened at the Morocco Theatre in New York City.
1957 ~ Death of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author.
1962 ~ Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers was exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1996 ~ Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov for the first time. 
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