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Historical Event(s)
– The original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster is cast in Stockton-on-Tees by Warner’s of Cripplegate. This however cracked during testing and is recast into the 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry and is still in use to date.
– Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
– Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
– United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
– Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
– The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
– Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace’s same theory.
– The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
– George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
Who Were Born On ?
– Beatrice Webb, English economist (d. 1943)
– Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
– Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
– Tom Garrett, Australian cricketer (d. 1943)
– Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
– Edward Marshall Hall, English barrister (d. 1927)
– Michael I. Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935)
– John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
– Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)
– Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)