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Constantinople, Deep Blue & the First Vaccine | May 11–14
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Eight landmark historical events from May 11–14 span the founding of Constantinople, Deep Blue's chess victory, the world's first vaccination, and Robert Smalls' daring Civil War escape. From Jamestown to the birth of Israel, this week in history reshaped civilization across every century.
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On November ninth, seventeen ninety-nine, in Paris, France, Napoleon Bonaparte pulled off one of history's most audacious power grabs. The French Directory — the five-man executive government that had stumbled through years of corruption and crisis — was swept aside in a single day.
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