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1655
Inventor of the piano, Bartolomeo Cristofori, born in Padua, Italy.
In Italian, the word for "soft", which his invention was able to play, is piano.
1886
The Haymarket Square Bombing kills seven Chicago, Illinois.
1891
Sherlock Holmes falls to his presumed death at Reichenbach Falls, Switzerland during a struggle with his enemy Professor Moriarty.
1924
VIII Summer Olympics open in Paris, France.
1929
Actress Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's) born in Brussels, Belgium
1943
Actor Michael Palin (Monty Python) born in Brookmhill, England.
1937
Surf guitarist Dick Dale born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1958
Artist Keith Haring born in Reading, Pennsylvania.
1970 
Four students killed at Kent State University by National Guard troops sent to quell an anti-war riot.
