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The Los Angeles Times
began publication; it is now the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the US (1881)
Suttee
the Hindu practice of a widow's self-immolation on her husband's funeral pyre was outlawed by the British in India (1829)
Mary Celeste
the ship was discovered heading toward the Strait of Gibraltar, sound if somewhat wet, but all its crew and passengers were missing and have never been found (1872)
Chicago
was founded with a mission established by French priest Jacques Marquette on the shore of Lake Michigan (1674)