1935

The Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.

1946

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.

1960

Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1973

The espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.

1981

Reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36 of acral lentiginous melanoma.

1997

The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in the final game of a six-game match in New York, winning 3 ½-2 ½ and marking the first time a computer won a match against a reigning world champion.

Birthdays

Rock singer Eric Burdon is 84. Actor Frances Fisher is 73. Former MTV VJ Martha Quinn is 66. Actor Tim Blake Nelson is 61. Former NFL quarterback Cam Newton is 36. Latin pop singer Prince Royce is 36. Singer-actor Sabrina Carpenter is 26.