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| 1817 |
| | | British officers, hoping to shoot a tiger, come across the forgotten Buddhist caves of Ajanta | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Herman Melville dies in obscurity in New York, with an unpublished manuscript of Billy Budd (not printed till 1924) | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Thomas Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks, brings him immediate success | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Jazz musician Fats Waller begins recording with his Buddies, one of the first racially integrated groups in the US music industry | |
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| 1959 |
| | | The Dalai Lama escapes from Tibet to India after the Chinese suppression of an armed uprising costing thousands of lives | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Solomon Bandaranaike is assassinated by a Buddhist monk after only three years as prime minister of Sri Lanka | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Aung San Ssu Kyi maries Michael Aris, an English academic specializing in the history of Buddhism | |
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