Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy)

Birth

William Rufus Terrill, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862

Birth

Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from M‚xico

Event

Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)

Birth

John Muir, US, naturalist/discoverer (glaciers in High Seirras)

Birth

Nat Thompson, cricketer (1st batsman dismissed in a Test match)

Birth

Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis)

Birth

Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization

Birth

Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer

Birth

Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer

Birth

Eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons

Birth

1st train crosses Miss River's 1st bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia

Event

Alexander Douglas patents the bustle

Event

Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co

Event

Ellen Price Wood's "East Lynne, premieres in Boston

Event

Declaration of Bah 'u'll h; Bah '¡ Feast of Ridv n (Jalƒl 13, 20)

Event

Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism)

Birth

Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington

Event

Benjamin A Jesurun, Antillian literary

Birth

Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies

Death

Leo Blech, composer

Birth

Vojtech Rihovsky, composer

Birth

GW Bitzer, [Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer], Roxbury MA

Birth

Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist

Birth

Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia

Event