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The Really Small Bad Day Almanac: May 10

1849: More than two dozen people die when a riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in New York City. The cause of the mayhem: a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready.
1933: Books throughout Germany are in mass burnings hosted by the Nazi party.
2018: Proof of Wikipedia's unreliability as a source of fact is discovered in this entry:

Napoleon was not declared emperor of France until May, 1804. He was crowned in December of that year. At the time of the siege of the bridge at Lodi, he was an army general.

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