330 ~ Byzantium was renamed Constantinople.

1812 ~ Prime Minster Spencer Perceval was assassinated in the lobby of the British House of Commons.

1857 ~ Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seized Delhi.

1888 ~ Birthday of Irving Berlin, composer.

1895 ~ Birthday of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher

1904 ~ Birthday of Salvador Dalí, Painter.

1918 ~ Birthday of Richard Feynman, Physicist.

1927 ~ The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards," was founded.

1933 ~ Birthday of Louis Farrakhan, Black Muslim leader

1997 ~ IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeated Garry Kasparov to become the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.

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