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Historical Event(s)
– Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
– The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
– Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
– 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'.
– George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
– Modified Julian Day zero.
– Denver, Colorado is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918)
– Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)
– Remy de Gourmont, French poet (d. 1915)
– Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
– Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
– Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937)
– Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
– Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian political activist (d. 1932)
– Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922)
– Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)