This Day in History (10-Feb-1996) – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time Feng-hsiung Hsu & Murray Campbell, graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University initiated a chess playing machine called Chiptest. IBM hired them in 1989 and the firs...
This Day in History: January 30 What Happened On Your Bday? Go to Today's Date Featured Event 1948 “Great Soul” assassinated Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi—considered the father of his country and internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest (satyagraha) to achieve political ...
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According to Britannica, he led the Montreal Canadiens to five championships. Bowman left the NHL for a while, and from 1979 to 1987, he was a television commentator for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "Hockey Night in Canada." In 1990 he was the director of player d...
4/Dec/1924Gateway of India was inagurated by Lord Riding 5/Dec/1848U.S. President James K. Polk informs the US Congress there are large amounts of gold in California, launching the Gold Rush 6/Dec/1768Encyclopædia Britannica is published for the first time ...
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The first of 18 apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to 14-year-old St. Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, happened on this day in history, Feb. 11, 1858.
The meaning of THISTLE is any of various composite flowering plants (especially genera Carduus, Cirsium, and Onopordum) that have prickles on their leaves and sometimes on their stems and often have showy heads of tubular, usually purple flowers; also :
Andon this day in history,Dec. 18, 1787, New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution and join the Union. The decision appeared to be fast-paced, as shown throughout the minutes recorded of the meeting dates, according toNew Jersey’s Department of State...