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★11 Sep 1847
Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna", one of the most famous American songs ever written, premiered at a concert in an ice cream shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

★02 May 1863
American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville, leading to his death by pneumonia eight days later.

★14 Jan 1900
Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

★08 Apr 1911
American cartoonist Winsor McCay released Little Nemo, one of the earliest animated films.

★13 Feb 1913
Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, declared the independence of Tibet from the Republic of China.

★14 Dec 1913
Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the Kongō-class, was launched, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during both World Wars.

★01 Jul 1916
First World War: The first day of the Battle of Albert, the opening phase of the Battle of the Somme, became the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army, with 57,470 casualties of which 19,240 were killed or died of wounds.

★05 Aug 1916
First World War: The British Empire's Sinai and Palestine Campaign began with a victory in the Battle of Romani.

★05 Feb 1917
The U.S. Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson's veto to pass the Immigration Act of 1917, establishing new restrictions on immigrants, including the wholesale ban of people from much of Asia.

★17 Jul 1918
RMS Carpathia, which had rescued the survivors of the RMS Titanic sinking in 1912, was sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of five crew.

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