MILESTONES: February 10, birthdays for Laura Dern, Roberta Flack, Chloë Grace Moretz
NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include Olympic sprinter Justin Gatlin, who was born in Brooklyn in 1982; singer Roberta Flack, who was born in 1937; actress Chloë Grace Moretz, who was born in 1997; actress, writer and director Elizabeth Banks, who was born in 1974; singer-songwriter and guitarist Donovan, who was born in 1946; actress, director and producer Laura Dern, who was born in 1967; opera singer Leontyne Price, who was born in 1927; actress Keeley Hawes, who was born in 1976; television personality Jim Cramer, who was born in 1955; Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz, who was born in 1950; actor Robert Wagner, who was born in 1930; former baseball player Lenny Dykstra, who was born in 1963; author Frances Moore Lappé, who was born in 1944; and golfer Greg Norman, who was born in 1955.
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MAN VERSUS MACHINE: The first victory by a computer in a chess tournament game occurred in Philadelphia on this day in 1996. IBM’s Deep Blue computer won against world champion Garry Kasparov in 34 moves, but Kasparov went on to win the tournament, defeating the computer three times. Deep Blue could evaluate 200 million chess positions but was incapable of using artificial intelligence to learn.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.