Today is Tuesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2026. There are 324 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Feb. 10, 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a match in Philadelphia against an IBM computer dubbed “Deep Blue.” (Kasparov ended up winning the match, 4 games to 2; however, he was defeated by Deep Blue in a rematch the following year.)
Also on this date:
In 1763, the treaty ending the Seven Years’ War was signed in Paris, with France ceding its territory in Canada to Great Britain.
In 1936, Nazi Germany’s Reichstag passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority, exempt from any legal review.
In 1959, an F4-intensity tornado tore through the St. Louis area, killing 21 people and injuring 345.
In 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin and East Germany, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
In 1967, the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, was adopted as Minnesota and Nevada ratified it.
In 1973, at least 40 workers were killed in an explosion and collapse of a large liquefied natural gas tank that was undergoing routine maintenance in the New York City borough of Staten Island.
In 1981, eight people were killed when a fire set by a busboy broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel.
In 2009, a U.S. commercial satellite and a defunct Russian satellite accidentally collided in orbit over Siberia, destroying both and creating a large debris field in space.
In 2018, a double-decker bus lost control and crashed in a Hong Kong suburb, killing 19 people and injuring dozens more in the southern Chinese city.
In 2021, severe winter storms caused catastrophic wide-scale power outages in Texas that left millions in the dark and lasted several days. At least 40 people died in Texas in the storm and its aftermath.
Today’s birthdays:
- Opera singer Leontyne Price is 99.
- Actor Robert Wagner is 96.
- Olympic swimming gold medalist Mark Spitz is 76.
- Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman is 71.
- Basketball Hall of Fame coach John Calipari is 67.
- Filmmaker Alexander Payne is 65.
- TV host-political commentator George Stephanopoulos is 65.
- Actor Laura Dern is 59.
- Writer-producer-director Vince Gilligan (TV: “Breaking Bad”) is 59.
- Football Hall of Famer Ty Law is 52.
- Actor-filmmaker Elizabeth Banks is 52.
- Basketball Hall of Famer Tina Thompson is 51.
- Reggaeton singer Don Omar is 48.
- Actor Uzo Aduba is 45.
- Actor Stephanie Beatriz is 45.
- Actor Emma Roberts is 35.
- Olympic swimming gold medalist Lilly King is 29.
- Actor Chloe Grace Moretz is 29.
- Actor Yara Shahidi is 26.
