Restoring Browsing History in Safari 8.0

So, in an attempt to fix some of the problems that my OS X had, I deleted my Safari browsing history through "Clear History and Website Data", which I thought was no problem, since I am using Time Machine, and have my history backed up. The only problem is that now, I have no idea which file/folder I should restore. I tried looking it up, and there were indications that I should restore Users/User/Library/Safari/History.plist, which I already tried to do, but to no avail.
So far I have tried the following:
I have tried restoring the whole Safari folder under /Users/User/Library/, which practically gave me nothing.
I also tried removing History.db and History.db-wal from the aforementioned folder, which seems to work, but only for a second before Safari actually catches the trick, and then somehow loads out the old history and loads in the new history. Apparently, /Users/User/Library/Safari isn't the only folder which Safari checks.
Any suggestions that might help solve the problem?

You need to quit Safari, then restore only the History.db file. Delete the other files with names beginning in "History". Obviously, you must restore from a snapshot that predates the unwanted changes.

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