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World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.

American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.

Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.

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