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Historical Event(s)
– First Polish stamp is issued.
– The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France
– Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
– The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
– The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—later renamed Community of Christ—is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois
– On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
– The Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
– Britain’s first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
– The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
– The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Corless Mills, American museum curator (d. 1928)
– Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
– Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
– James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
– Tom Norman, English freak showman (d. 1930)
– James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
– Florence Harding, American First Lady (d. 1924)
– Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940)
– Elmer Sperry, American inventor (d. 1930)
– Hjalmar Branting, Swedish diplomat; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)