February 10, 2023
QUOTE
We all love to win, but how many people love to train?
--Mark Spitz
BIRTHDAYS
1744 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician
1906 – Lon Chaney Jr., Actor
1950 – Mark Spitz, Champion swimmer
IN MEMORY
1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author
1992 – Alex Haley, Soldier and author
2010 – Charles Wilson, Politician
IN ON THIS DAY
1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened.
1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.