How Many Days Until February 10?

This day in history: February 10

1. 1940

   Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, was released to theaters.

2. 1941

   In the first airborne operation undertaken by the British military, a small force of paratroopers landed near Calitri, Italy, to destroy an aqueduct.

3. 1962

   Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the CIA spy plane that had been shot down over Soviet airspace two years earlier.

4. 1962

   The first solo exhibition by Roy Lichtenstein opened, including the painting Look Mickey, which featured his first use of Ben Day dots, speech balloons, and comic imagery sourcing.

5. 1996

   Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first ever game won by a chess-playing computer against a World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions.

6. 2008

   The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson.

7. 2009

   The satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 destroyed each other in the first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit.

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