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02-09-2011, 08:59 PM
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February 10th
1840
~
Queen Victoria
of the United Kingdom married
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
.
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
.
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.
1998
~
Voters in Maine repealed a gay rights law passed in 1997.
2005
~
Death of
Arthur Miller
, playwright .
2007
~
Sen. Barack Obama announced
his bid for president
.
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