05-11-2006, 05:41 AM
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Location: Maryland
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May 11th
1904 ~ Birthday of Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter.
1918 ~ Birthday of Richard Feynman, American Physicist.
1930 ~ Birthday of Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist.
1949 ~ Israel was admitted to the UN.
1981 ~ Reggae musician Bob Marley died of cancer.
1987 ~ The first heart-lung transplant took 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.
1998 ~ India announced that it has tested a group of nuclear weapons.
2001 ~ Death of Douglas Adams, Science Fiction author.
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