Today’s Highlights

On May 11, 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.

On this date

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.

1953: One of the deadliest tornadoes in Texas history devastated the city of Waco, killing 114 people and injuring nearly 600.

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.

Today’s birthdays

Rock singer Eric Burdon is 84. Actor Frances Fisher is 73. Former MTV VJ Martha Quinn is 66. Olympic boxing gold medalist Mark Breland is 62. Actor Tim Blake Nelson is 61. Basketball Hall of Famer Lauren Jackson is 44. Former NFL quarterback Cam Newton is 36. Latin pop singer Prince Royce is 36. Actor Lana Condor is 28. Singer-actor Sabrina Carpenter is 26.