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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WERD, the first African-American-owned radio station in the US, made its first broadcast.
A picture of Pope John Paul II was torn up by the Irish singer Sinead O'Connor on Saturday Night Live.
Violet Stewart Piercy, a long-distance runner from England, set the first recorded marathon win for women at 3:40:22.
Singers Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson released their song 'Say Say Say.'
A Neptune-sized exomoon became the first one discovered outside the Solar System.
