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330 - Byzantium became the new capital of the Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine I, and was referred to as Constantinople.
1792 - Merchant sea-captain Robert Gray first entered the Columbia River, the largest river flowing into the Pacific Ocean from North America.
1812 - British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (pictured) was assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons.
1949 - Siam was officially renamed Thailand.
1960 - Mossad agents captured Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi leader and fugitive war criminal hiding in Argentina.

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