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Historical Event(s)
– The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
– The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
– Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world, is founded in London.
– Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
– Congress establishes the United States’ 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
– Harvard wins the first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
– The University of Sydney, Australia’s oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
– Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
– The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
– Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French (Napoleon III).
Who Were Born On ?
– Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist (d. 1904)
– Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
– Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1934)
– Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
– Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1911)
– Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician, military leader and State President (d. 1918)
– Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
– Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
– Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
– Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)