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Historical Event(s)
– Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
– Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
– The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
– The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
– Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
– 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.
– 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)
– King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
– Sam Walter Foss, American librarian and poet (d. 1911)
– Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
– Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
– Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (d. 1889)
– Edward Marshall Hall, English barrister (d. 1927)
– Michael I. Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935)
– Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian political activist (d. 1932)