On This Day for May 11 - “New Rome” established by Constantine, Salvador Dalí is featured, and more

Created: 2020-05-11 10:03 Updated: 2020-05-11 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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May 11

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Salvador Dalí

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“New Rome” established by Constantine

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2010: Scottish-born British politician Gordon Brown officially resigned as prime minister of the United Kingdom, ending 13 years of Labour Party rule. [Test your knowledge of British culture and politics.]

1997: IBM's chess-playing computer Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in the last game of a six-game match to claim a 3.5–2.5 victory (it won two games and had three draws); it marked the first time a current world champion had lost a match to a computer under tournament conditions. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about chess.]