The London Beer Flood, an industrial accident that created a “beer tsunami,” resulted in the death of nine people.
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Infamous gangster, Al Capone, was convicted of income tax evasion.
Nine regicides of King Charles I were sentenced to death.
Thomas Edison filed his patent for the Optical Phonograph.
The US population reached 300 million people.
Iran attempted to create the world's largest sandwich at 1,500 meters long but failed due to a crowd eating it before it was measured.