Deep Blue
- 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeated the Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian "Pragmatic Army" at the Battle of Fontenoy in the Austrian Netherlands in present-day Belgium.
- 1812 – Spencer Perceval became the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated when he was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons.
- 1894 – In response to a 28 percent wage cut, 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on strike in Illinois, bringing rail traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
- 1985 – During an association football match between Bradford City and Lincoln City in Bradford, England, a flash fire consumed one side of the Valley Parade stadium, killing 56 attendees.
- 1997 – Deep Blue (pictured) became the first computer to win a match against a world chess champion, when it defeated Garry Kasparov in six games.
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