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1904 ~ Birthday of Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter.

1918 ~ Birthday of Richard Feynman, American Physicist.

1973 ~ Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed.

1981 ~ Death of Bob Marley, Reggae musician.

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 had tested a group of nuclear weapons.

2001 ~ Death of Douglas Adams, Science Fiction author.

2003 ~ Death of Noel Redding, the bass guitarist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience.