Today in History for December 1860
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Months in 1860: January February March April May June July August September October November
Historical Events
Results 1 - 7 of 7
17th - Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
20th - SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede
24th - Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle," premieres in NYC
26th - Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
26th - Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft Sumter
26th - The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England.
29th - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 13 of 13
2nd - C T Studd, cricketer (brother of G B, five Tests for England)
7th - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
13th - Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)
15th - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist (Nobel 1903)
15th - Abner Powell, American baseball player (d. 1953)
18th - Edward Alexander MacDowell, US, composer (Indian Suite)
20th - Dan Leno, English entertainer (d. 1904)
21st - Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah)
22nd - Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator (d. 1927)
23rd - Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You & I)
25th - Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (d. 1921)
28th - Alexander von Fielitz, composer
31st - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (d. 1937)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 4 of 4
2nd - Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
7th - Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43
17th - Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777)
28th - Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57
