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Computer beats four of the world’s top poker players

Libratus is an artificial intelligence computer program designed to play Poker. Libratus broke through the $1,000,000 barrier for the first time. At the end of the day, it was ahead $1,194,402 in chips against the human team. At the end of the competition, Libratus was ahead $1,766,250 in chips and thus won resoundingly.

Satya Nadella emerges as new Microsoft boss

Nadella was announced as the new CEO of Microsoft, the third chief executive in the company's history. Nadella changed the company’s direction after becoming CEO. His tenure has emphasized openness to working with companies and technologies with which Microsoft also competes, including Apple Inc., Salesforce, IBM, and Dropbox.

Old Spice debuts 'The Man Your Man Could Smell Like' TV ad

Smell like a Man, Man is a television advertising campaign in the United States created by ad agency Wieden+Kennedy for Old Spice. The campaign is also commonly referred to as The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, being the title of the campaign's initial 30-second commercial.

The Facebook website is launched

Zuckerberg launched "TheFacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com. Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College; within the first month, more than half the undergraduates at Harvard were registered on the service.

Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army

19-year-old Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley, California, apartment. She was beaten and lost consciousness during the abduction. Shots were fired from a machine gun during the incident. An urban guerrilla group called the Symbionese Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the abduction.

Fatah founder Arafat is elected Chairman of the PLO

Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian political leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian National Authority. Ideologically an Arab nationalist, he was a founding member of the Fatah political party.

Yalta Conference foreshadows the Cold War

The Yalta Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization. The three states were represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin.

George Washington becomes the first elected U.S. president

George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of his two terms as president, and John Adams became the first vice president. G. Washington was enormously popular, and his agreement to serve as the first President of the United States ensured that he was listed first when the electors cast their votes on the appointed day.

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

born 1970

Hunter Biden

born 1913

Rosa Parks

born 1947

Dan Quayle

born 1953

Jerome Powell