05-11-2005, 05:07 AM
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May 11th
1857 ~ Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seized Delhi from the British.
1904 ~ Birthday of Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter.
1918 ~ Birthday of Richard Feynman, American Physicist
1930 ~ Birthday of Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist.
1960 ~ The first contraceptive pill is put on the market.
1984 ~ A transit of Earth from Mars took place, but no one was there to observe it.
1987 ~ The first heart-lung transplant takes place in Baltimore, Maryland.
1988 ~ Death of Kim Philby, Spy.
1997 ~ IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeated Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.
2001 ~ Death of Douglas Adams, Science Fiction author.
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