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1790 Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was first performed in Vienna.

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1824 Théodore Géricault, painter who used corpses in the morgue as models for The Raft of the Medusa, died.

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1855 Gérard de Nerval, French Romantic poet who kept a lobster as a pet, died.

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1885 General Charles Gordon was killed at Khartoum during the rising led by the Mahdi.

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1905 the largest diamond in the world, the Cullinan, was mined at Pretoria, South Africa.

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1950 India became a republic within the Commonwealth.

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1998 President Bill Clinton denied having had sexual relations with intern Monica Lewinsky.