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On this day in 330, Constantine the Great dedicated Byzantium (Constantinople; now Istanbul) as the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, an act that helped transform it into a leading city of the world. More Events on this day: 1943: U.S. troops invaded Attu, one of the Aleutian Islands captured by the Japanese in 1942. 1918: American theoretical physicist Richard P. Feynman was born in New York City. 1910: Glacier National Park was established in the Rocky Mountain wilderness of northwestern Montana. 1885: American jazz cornetist King Oliver was born in Abend, Louisiana. 1846: U.S. President James K. Polk asked Congress to declare war on Mexico. Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, a leading Surrealist painter noted for his depiction of dreamworlds in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed or deformed in a bizarre and irrational fashion, was born this day in 1904.
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