02-10-2006, 06:32 AM
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February 10th
1837 ~ Death of Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian Poet & Novelist.
1840 ~ Queen Victoria of the UK 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 1958 Nobel Prize in literature.
1898 ~ Birthday of Bertolt Brecht, Author.
1927 ~ Birthday of Leontyne Price, Soprano.
1933 ~ The first singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegram Co. in New York. Sic transit gloria mundi.
1949 ~ ”Death of a Salesman” opened at the Morocco Theatre in New York City.
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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