Safari History Deletes After it is viewed

When viewing the Safari History for a specific date, and one clicks on a previously viewed link, that link is deleted and moved to the "last viewed" list. It is gone form the history of that day. This is really frustrating; is this by design, or is it a bug?

Go to ~ / Library / Safari.
Move the History.plist file from the Safari folder to the Trash.
Restart your Mac.
~ (Tilde) character represents the Home folder.
If you are running Lion v10.7: To find the Home folder in OS X Lion, open the Finder, hold the Option key, and choose Go > Library
If the future when you post for help please tell us which Mac OS X you have installed and which version of Safari. The more details you provide, the easier to assist you. Thanks!

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