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Historical Event(s)
– Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
– The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
– The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
– In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
– Britain’s first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
– Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
– The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
– 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 British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Corless Mills, American museum curator (d. 1928)
– Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)
– Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
– Owen Wister, American novelist (d. 1938)
– Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
– Ottó Bláthy, AHungarian electrical engineer (d. 1939)
– Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, England cricketer (d. 1938)
– Juliette Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts (d. 1927)
– Boies Penrose, American politician (d. 1921)
– Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)