Important Events From This day in History – 10th February

Today in History

• 2009 Two satellites collide in space

  Both the U.S. satellite “Iridium 33” and the Russian “Kosmos 2251” were destroyed in the accident.

• 1996 Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a chess game against a reigning world champion

  Despite his defeat in the first game, Russian world champion Garry Kasparov won the match by 4-2 games.

• 1964 Bob Dylan’s album “The Times They Are A-Changin’” is released

  The title track is one of Dylan’s best-known songs.

• 1964 An aircraft carrier collides with a destroyer in Australia, killing 82

  Destroyer HMAS Voyager sailed under aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourn’s bow, was cut in half and sank.

• 1962 Francis Gary Powers, a U.S. spy captured by the Soviet Union, is released

  Powers was exchanged for captured Soviet spy, Rudolf Ivanovich Abel.