1847: Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond after two years of living alone in a small cabin and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts. Wackiness ensues.
1991: Saint Petersburg (Russia, not Florida) has its traditional name restored after being called Leningrad since 1924. In other news, Istanbul was Constantinople
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