TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Ash Wednesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2016. There are 325 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On Feb. 10, 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a match in Philadelphia against an IBM computer “Deep Blue.” (He ended up winning the match, 4 games to 2 but was defeated in a rematch the following year.)
On this date
1763 — Britain, Spain and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War in North America).
1879 — The Young Men’s Library Association of Rome was formed.
1936 — Nazi Germany’s Reichstag passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority exempt from any legal review.
1962 — The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
Today’s Birthdays
Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe is 103. Opera singer Leontyne Price is 89. Actor Robert Wagner is 86. Singer Roberta Flack is 79. Country singer Lionel Cartwright is 56. Political commentator Glenn Beck is 52. Actress Laura Dern is 49. Actress Uzo Aduba is 35. Actress Emma Roberts is 25. Actress Chloe Grace Moretz is 19. Actress Yara Shahidi is 16. West End Elementary School fourth-grader Trey Neal Scales, son of the late Larry Scales Jr. and Yvonda Smith Scales of Rome, is 10.