📰 TODAY IN HISTORY

📆 - May 11

📜 Events:

* 330 — The Roman Emperor Constantine holds a dedication ceremony for the greatly expanded and rebuilt city of Byzantium, changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

* 868 — A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, becoming the oldest known printed book.

* 1502 — Christopher Columbus departs from Cádiz on his fourth and final voyage to the Americas.

* 1820 — The HMS Beagle is launched in the United Kingdom, a ship that, a decade later, will carry Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.

* 1945 — World War II: Along the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is struck by two kamikazes, killing 346 members of its crew.

* 1997 — Deep Blue, a chess supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world chess champion in a standard game format.

* 2007 — The canonization of Brazil’s first saint, Frei Galvão, in São Paulo by Pope Benedict XVI.

*⭐ Births:*

* 482 — Justinian, Byzantine emperor (d. 565).

* 1904 — Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist painter (d. 1989).

* 1918 — Richard Feynman, American physicist (d. 1988).

* 1925 — Rubem Fonseca, Brazilian writer and screenwriter (d. 2020).

* 1948 — Ricardo Lewandowski, Brazilian jurist and magistrate.

* 1984 — Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer.

* 1999 — Sabrina Carpenter, American actress and singer.

*🕊️ Deaths:*

* 1610 — Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1552).

* 1788 — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (b. 1708).

* 1812 — Spencer Perceval, British politician (b. 1762).

* 1916 — Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873).

* 1937 — Afonso Costa, Portuguese politician and republican leader (b. 1871).

* 1981 — Bob Marley, Jamaican musician (b. 1945).

* 2001 — Douglas Adams, British writer (b. 1952).

*📍 Holidays and Recurring Events:*

*Brazil:*

* Telegraph Integration Day

* Municipal holiday in Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás - city anniversary

* Municipal holiday in Ibicuitinga, Ceará - city anniversary

* Municipal holiday in Rio Quente, Goiás - city anniversary

* Flag Day of Curitiba, the capital of Paraná.

* National Reggae Day

* National Traffic Agents Day
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