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1834: Delmonico's in New York offers a meal of soup, steak, coffee and half a pie for 12 cents; in today's dollars that meal would still be too old to eat.
1864: Confederate plot to burn down Manhattan fails when New Yorkers won't let would-be arsonist "borrow" a match.
1952: Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
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