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1875 the first performance of Carmen at Paris’s Opéra-Comique was so poorly received that it was thought to have hastened the death of its composer, Georges Bizet.

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1894 six months after his second Home Rule Bill had been defeated by the House of Lords, William Gladstone resigned as prime minister.

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1924 Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk abolished the caliphate (the Islamic leadership of the Ottoman sultans).

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1931 the US Congress adopted The Star-Spangled Banner as the American national anthem.

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1991 Rodney King was filmed being beaten by Los Angeles police officers, leading to widespread riots.