Felix Mendelssohn’s Wedding March becomes a popular wedding recessional (Jan 25), the first aerial photography is carried out, from tethered balloon in France (Aug), after a summer of problems, a bill is passed to create a modern sewage system in London (Aug 2), Macy’s department store in New York City opens for business (Oct 28), the city of Denver, Colorado is founded (Nov 17), homosexuality is legalised in the Ottoman Empire – and all these fine people were born:
1858-0107 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda* Hebrew lexicographer/newspaper editor/helped revive the Hebrew language – Luzhki, Vilna Governate, Russian Empire (1922/64)-a
1858-0109 Elizabeth Gertrude Britton* botanist/bryologist – New York, NY USA (1934/76)
1858-0114 Patrick Joseph Kennedy* businessman/ politician – Boston, MA USA (1929/71)
1858-0212 Clara Lanza* (b Hammond) novelist – Fort Riley, Kansas Territory, USA (1939/81)
1858-0312 Adolph Ochs* newspaper publisher/former owner of The New York Times – Cincinnati, OH USA (1935/77)
1858-0313 Maximilien Luce* painter/engraver/activist – Paris, France (1941/82)
1858-0423 Max Planck* physicist/N – Kiel, Duchy of Holstein (1947/89)
1858-0423 Pandita Ramabai* scholar/ social reformer/ – Canaa District, Madras, British India (1922/63)-a
1858-0616 John Peter Russell* impressionist painter – Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (1930/71)
1858-0701 Velma Caldwell Melville* editor/writer – Vernon County, WI USA (1924/66)
1858-0715 Emmeline Pankhurst* leader of the British suffragette movement – Manchester, England (1928/69)
1858-1027 Theodore Roosevelt* politician/26usp – New York, NY USA (1919/60)
1858-1120 Selma Lagerlöf* author/teacher/N – Mårbacka, Värmland, Sweden (1940/81)
1858-1130 Jagadish Chandra Bose* polymath/biophysicist/archaeologist – Bikrampur, Bengal, British India (1937/78)
1858-1204 Chester Greenwood* inventor/business developer – Farmington, ME USA (1937/78)
Updated 24.4.2019
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