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February 17th 1996; in the final game of a six-game match, world chess champion Garry Kasparov triumphs over Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing computer, and wins the match, 4-2. | | | |  Castro sworn in by The Ovi Team
On February 16, 1959, Fidel Castro is sworn in as prime minister of Cuba after leading a guerrilla campaign that forced right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile. Castro, who became commander in chief of Cuba's armed forces after Batista was ouste | | | |  Soviets pull out of Afghanistan by The Ovi Team
February 15th 1989; Soviet troops withdrawn from Afghanistan, nine years after they swept into the country. A convoy of Soviet armoured vehicles travelled the 260-mile (418km) journey to the USSR border while other soldiers left aboard an Ilyushin 76 tran | |
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| | |  Chernenko by The Ovi Team
February 14th 1984; following the death of Yuri Andropov four days earlier, Konstantin Chernenko takes over as the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, the ruling position in the Soviet Union. Chernenko was the last of the Russian communist " | | | |  Dresden devastated by The Ovi Team
On the evening of February 13, 1945, the most controversial episode in the Allied air war against Germany begins as hundreds of British bombers loaded with incendiaries and high-explosive bombs descend on Dresden, a historic city located in eastern German | | | |  Last emperor of China abdicates by The Ovi Team
On February 12, 1912, Hsian-T'ung, the last emperor of China, is forced to abdicate following Sun Yat-sen's republican revolution. A provisional government was established in his place, ending 267 years of Manchu rule in China and 2,000 years of imperia | | | |  Nelson Mandela released from prison by The Ovi Team
February 11th, 1990 Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years. | | | |  Francis Gary Powers freed by The Ovi Team
February 10th 1962; American spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers freed from prison in the Soviet Union in exchange for a Russian spy jailed in the US. Gary Powers were sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet prison after his U-2 plane was shot down over Russia | | | |  McCarthy launches anti-red crusade by The Ovi Team
February 9th 1950; United States Senator Joe McCarthy accused more than 200 staff in the State Department of being members of the Communist Party. He made the startling allegation in a public speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, saying the State Department | | | |  The New Queen by The Ovi Team
February 8th 1952; Princess Elizabeth formally proclaimed herself Queen and Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith. Lords of the Council - numbering 150 - representatives from the Commonwealth, officials from the City of London - including the | | | | next | | |
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