'His Airness', future 14-time NBA All-Star, 5-time NBA MVP, and 6-time NBA champion is born in Brooklyn, New York. 1963
Michael Jordan
88.3%
Hakeem Olajuwon
2.1%
Patrick Ewing
4.6%
David Robinson
1.6%
This Charleston stronghold, which was the location of the first battle of the US Civil War, is abandoned by Confederate soldiers. 1865
Fort Sumter
76.5%
Fort Knox
9.6%
Fort McHenry
8.7%
Fort Randolph
2.7%
Myles Standish is named the first military commander of the Plymouth Colony militia located in this contemporary US state. 1621
Massachusetts
73.9%
New York
3.6%
Connecticut
4.9%
Virginia
17.5%
Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov defeats this IBM-built supercomputer in Game 6 to claim the series 4-2 in favor of Kasparov. 1996
Deep Blue
61.9%
Watson
25.2%
REBEL
6.5%
Deep Fritz
2.7%
This Apache warrior dies in US captivity in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. 1909
Geronimo
54.3%
Sitting Bull
36.7%
Cochise
4.1%
Red Cloud
1.9%
This nation surrenders the War of the Quadruple Alliance to Great Britain, France, the Dutch Republic, and Austria by signing the Treaty of the Hague. 1720
Spain
46.1%
Russia
23.4%
Sweden
13.2%
Italy
16.4%
This English historian publishes the first volume of 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.' 1776
Edward Gibbon
35.9%
John Stuart Mill
17.2%
Edmund Burke
29.9%
Adam Smith
15.5%
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