Friday, May 11, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

MAY 11
1858:Minnesota became the 32nd state in the United States.

1949:Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1960:Israeli agents captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1973:Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed.
1981:Reggae performer Bob Marley died of cancer in Miami at the age of 36.
1997:IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six game chess match (2 for blue, 1 for Kasparov, and 3 ties).
1998:India set off atomic blasts.
2003:91% of Lithuanian voters opted to join the European Union—the first former Soviet nation to do so.
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