Today in History: May 11, Deep Blue defeats Kasparov

This day is Sunday May the st day of There are days left in the year Currently in history On May the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in the final meeting of a six-game match in New York winning - and marking the first time a computer won a match against a reigning world champion Also on this date In the Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D Roosevelt s New Deal programs Related Articles In contemporary times in History May golden spike completes transcontinental railway Liam and Olivia dominate again with top baby names for a sixth year in a row First at-home test kit for cervical cancer approved by the FDA company says DA POPE Leo XIV s Chicago roots unleash spate of holy humor Despite historic indictment doctors will keep mailing abortion pills across state lines In the first CARE packages sent by a consortium of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of postwar Europe arrived at Le Havre France In one of the deadliest tornadoes in Texas history devastated the city of Waco killing people and injuring nearly In Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires Argentina In the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the Pentagon Papers circumstance came to an end as Judge William M Byrne dismissed all charges citing leadership misconduct In reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age of acral lentiginous melanoma In Claus Barbie the Nazi Gestapo chief known as the Butcher of Lyon went on trial in Lyon for crimes against humanity after being extradited from Bolivia where he lived for over years after World War II Barbie would be located guilty and would die in prison four years later In an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC- caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades killing all people on board In the current era s Birthdays Rock singer Eric Burdon is Actor Frances Fisher is Former MTV VJ Martha Quinn is Olympic boxing gold medalist Mark Breland is Actor Tim Blake Nelson is Basketball Hall of Famer Lauren Jackson is Former NFL quarterback Cam Newton is Latin pop singer Prince Royce is Actor Lana Condor is Singer-actor Sabrina Carpenter is