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Historical Event(s)
– 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
– The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
– The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
– The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
– The Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
– The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
– Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
– The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
– Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
– 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 ?
– Sir William Ashley, British economic historian (d. 1927)
– Herman Hollerith, American statistician (d. 1929)
– Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
– Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (d. 1940)
– J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)
– Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
– Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917)
– Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musicologist (d. 1936)
– Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (d. 1926)
– Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)