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| 1818 | Political philosopher Karl Marx was born in Prussia. |
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| 1821 | Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena. |
| 1891 | Carnegie Hall (then named Music Hall) opened in New York City. |
| 1892 | Congress extended the Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 years. |
| 1893 | Panic hit the New York Stock Exchange; by year's end, the country was in the throes of a severe depression. |
| 1904 | Cy Young of the Boston Americans pitched the first perfect game in modern major league baseball history in a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics. |
| 1925 | John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. |
| 1955 | West Germany became a sovereign state. |
| 1981 | Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died in prison in Northern Ireland on his 66th day without food. |
| 1985 | President Ronald Reagan attended a wreath-laying ceremony at a military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany. The visit drew worldwide condemnation because 49 members of the Waffen SS were buried there. |
| 2002 | French President Jacques Chirac was re-elected in a landslide victory over extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. |
| 2010 | Preliminary plans for a mosque and cultural center near ground zero in New York were unveiled, setting off a national debate over whether the project was disrespectful to 9/11 victims and whether opposition to it exposed anti-Muslim biases. |
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