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Historical Event(s)
– The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
– Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
– Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
– Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
– 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.
– U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
– 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'.
– Denver, Colorado is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
– Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918)
– Ebenezer Sumner Draper, 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)
– Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
– Tom Garrett, Australian cricketer (d. 1943)
– Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937)
– Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
– Charles de Foucauld, French catholic priest (d. 1916)
– Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
– Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)