1858

22-Dec

Giacomo Puccini (Musician, Italian opera composer)

15-Jul

Emmeline Pankhurst (British suffragette, formed the women’s social & Political Union)

29-Jun

George Washington Goethals, (Civil engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal)

23-Apr

Max Planck (Physicist)

18-Mar

Rudolf Diesel (German engineer, invented the diesel engine)

18-Jan

Daniel Williams (Performed the first open heart surgery)

21-Aug

During the Illinois senatorial campaign, debates began between senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephan Douglas.

16-Aug

A telegraphed message from Britain’s Queen Victoria to U.S President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid transatlantic cable.

1-Jul

The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London took place.

16-Jun

In a speech in Springfield, Illinois, Senate Candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, “A house divided against itself cannot

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Dianne Russell

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