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Historical Event(s)
– British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
– The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
– Westminster’s Big Ben rang for the first time in London.
– Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
– Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
– The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
– King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
– Spain declares war on Morocco.
– The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
– Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper’s Ferry.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India (d. 1925)
– Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881)
– Alexandre Millerand, French politician (d. 1943)
– Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
– Sholom Aleichem, Russian novelist (d. 1916)
– Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, Welsh socialite (d. 1924)
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and writer (d. 1930)
– Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (d. 1931)
– Frank Dawson Adams, Canadian geologist (d.1942)
– Julius Klengel, cellist and composer (d. 1933)