February 10

1961 - As part of official the opening ceremony for DSS-41 (the first deep space tracking station to be built outside the USA), Australian Minister of Supply Alan Hume receives greetings sent from NASA Deputy Administrator Hugh Dryden from Washington D.C. and bounced off of the moon.

1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.