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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.
– The original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster is cast in Stockton-on-Tees by Warner’s of Cripplegate. This however cracked during testing and is recast into the 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry and is still in use to date.
– The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
– Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
– Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
– 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.
– 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'.
Who Were Born On ?
– Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d. 1931)
– Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farmer (d. 1954)
– Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918)
– Ethel Mary Smyth, English composer (d. 1944)
– Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
– Julia Lathrop, American social reformer and children’s rights activist (d. 1932)
– Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
– Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Laureate (d. 1930)
– Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937)
– Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)