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This year in history
In the year 1848

	February 21st	The communist manifesto was first published by Karl Marx.
	February 23th	President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, died at the age of 80. He was the 6th president of the United States and is best remembered as having been one of the strongest supporters of the abolition of slavery in the United States.
	April 8th	Italian composer, Gaetano Donizetti, died at Bergamo (then Austria). His most celebrated work was the opera "Lucia di Lammermoor".
	June 7th	French painter, Paul Gauguin, was born in Paris. Heis widely acknowledged as the leading post-impressionist artist of the 19th century.
	September 23th	The first commercial production of chewing gum took place in the United States.
	December 19th	British author, Emily Bronte, died at the age of 30. She only wrote one novel, Wuthering Heights, although it is considered as one of the classics of English literature.

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