Today in History: May 11, Deep Blue defeats Kasparov

Today is Sunday, May 11, the 131st day of 2025. There are 234 days left in the year.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.In 1935, the Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.In 1946, the first CARE packages, sent by a consortium of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of postwar Europe, arrived ..