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Historical Event(s)
– Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
– 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 Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
– Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
– Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
– United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
– 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'.
– Modified Julian Day zero.
– Denver, Colorado is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d. 1931)
– Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918)
– King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
– Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (d. 1928)
– Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
– Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist (d. 1936)
– Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937)
– Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
– Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
– Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)