Abraham Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin
in Kentucky on February 12, 1809.

He served as President of the United States from 1861
until his assassination in 1865.        

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)
was born in in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron,
Michigan.        

        
 
He was an American inventor and businessman who developed
many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass
communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.

These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion
picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb,
have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized
world.

Edison’s first successful model of light bulb, used in
public demonstration at Menlo Park, December 1879.

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Robert John Wagner Jr. is also known for starring in the
television shows It Takes a Thief (1968–1970), Switch
(1975–1978), and Hart to Hart (1979–1984). He later had
recurring roles on Two and a Half Men (2007–2008) and
NCIS (2010–2019).

On February 10, 1996, after three hours, world chess champion
Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match against
Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million
moves per second.

Man was ultimately victorious over machine, however, as
Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with three wins
and two ties and took home the $400,000 prize.

An estimated 6 million people worldwide followed the action
online.

Garry Kasparov will be 62 years old April 13th.

On February 10, 2014, Shirley Temple Black, who as a child in the
1930s became one of Hollywood’s most successful stars, died at
her Woodside, California, home at age 85.

The plucky, curly-haired performer sang, danced and acted in
dozens of films by the time she was a teen; as an adult, she
gave up making movies and served as a U.S. diplomat
under four presidents.

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