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- 18-April-1909, At the age of 497 : Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
- 10-December-1901, At the age of 68 : The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the 5th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
- 17-March-1901, At the age of 47 : A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
- 01-June-1879, At the age of 109 : Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial (Napoleon IV), greatgreatnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Bonapartist pretender to the throne, dies in Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 10-October-1877, At the age of 37 : Following the recovery of LieutenantLieutenantColonel George Armstrong Custer's body from where he fell during the Battle of Little Big Horn the previous year, Custer is given a funeral with full military honors and is laid to rest at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
- 14-November-1851, At the age of 189 : Herman Melville's novel ''Moby-Dick; or The Whale'' is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York, after being first published on October 18 in London by Richard Bentley, in 3 volumes as ''The Whale''.
- 08-August-1809, At the age of 89 : 70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnius arrive in Palestine.
- 29-June-1746, At the age of 224 : Catherine of Ricci (b. 1522) is canonized.
- 17-August-1740, At the age of 88 : Pope Benedict XIV succeeds Pope Clement XII as the 247th pope.
- 30-January-1661, At the age of 61 : The body of Oliver Cromwell is exhumed and subjected to a posthumous execution, along with those of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton.
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