Author Edgar Allan Poe was last seen alive. He was disorientated, lying in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland, US.
The next time someone saw him was his dead body on October 8, and the cause of his death is a complete mystery today.
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Muhammed VII became the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.
The last Prince of Wales, Dafydd ap Gruffudd, was the first person recorded to have been hanged, drawn, and quartered.
A picture of Pope John Paul II was torn up by the Irish singer Sinead O'Connor on Saturday Night Live.
A Neptune-sized exomoon became the first one discovered outside the Solar System.
ABC aired the first episode of 'The Mickey Mouse Club.'
