11th May 1997: IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov to become the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion under tournament conditions
Ranked as the 259th most powerful computer in the world, Deep Blue was able to evaluate 200 million separate chess positions per ...
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10th May 1941: Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer of the German Nazi Party, flew from Germany to Scotland on a mission to strike a peace deal with the British government
Hess landed twelve miles away from his intended destination of Dungavel House, the home of the Duke of Hamilton, with whom he hoped to open peace ...
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9th May 1887: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show opens in London
On the 9th May 1887, Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opened in London at the American Exhibition in West ...
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8th May 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea ends during the War in the Pacific
The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ...
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7th May 1794: Cult of the Supreme Being formally announced by Robespierre in a meeting of the National Convention
The Cult of the Supreme Being recognised that God had created the universe, but that He did not interfere or intervene in its operation. Therefore it taught that humans were responsible for their own actions and ...
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6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries
West Germany’s Federal Archives revealed that forensic tests proved the Hitler Diaries were ...
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5th May 1260: Kublai Khan was declared Emperor of the Mongolian Empire
The area governed by Kublai Khan was enormous and swept from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Black Sea in the west, and from Afghanistan in the south to Siberia in the ...
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4th May 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot Kent State University students
Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four Kent State University ...
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