1845-The Portland Vase is broken by drunken museum visitor
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1862-Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Sumner meet with President Abraham Lincoln at The White House, Washington
1874-Jesse James gang robs a train at Gads Hill, Missouri
1836- Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria dies in pact with his mistress
1905-Tsar Nicholas II of Russia enacts reforms to improve the conditions of workers (although they don’t stop the country’s disorder)
1887-Work begins on the Eiffel Tower in Paris
1993- André the Giant dies at the age of 46
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1972- Serbian air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute – world’s highest fall without a parachute
1858-Felix Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
1848-James Marshall finds gold in Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California
1937-Karl Radek and sixteen others go on trial in Moscow as part of the Great Purge, many are sentenced to death
1980-Russian dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner arrested in Moscow and banished to Gorky
