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1901 – U.S. author O. Henry was released from prison after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1911 – Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas", in the Peruvian Andes.
1927 – In Ypres, Belgium, the Menin Gate war memorial was unveiled.
1929 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect.
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becaming the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.

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