The survival movie “Into the Wild,” starring Emile Hirsch, premiered at the Rome Film Festival.
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Rockband Green Day released their seventh album, 'American Idiot.'
In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeated Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
Benedetto Odescalchi was elected as Pope Innocent XI.
After 14 years in space, NASA's Galileo spacecraft was intentionally destroyed in Jupiter's atmosphere.
The Great Fire of New York ended.
