Today in History for October 1860
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Months in 1860: January February March April May June July August September November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 7 of 7
8th - Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
12th - British & French troops capture Beijing
13th - 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
15th - 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
17th - 1st British Golf Open: Willie Park shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club
17th - 1st pro golf tournament held (Scotland) (Willie Park wins)
18th - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 9 of 9
3rd - Annie EF Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre, Dublin)
4th - Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes)
6th - Oscar L Helfrich, Dutch governor (Curacao)
6th - Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister (1908-13)
8th - Felix Woyrsch, composer
12th - Elmer A Sperry, inventor (gyrocompass)
17th - Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer
19th - Affie Jarvis, cricketer (Australian WK of the late 19th century)
31st - Juliette Gordon Low, activist/founder (Girl Scouts of America)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 6 of 6
2nd - Louis Hersent, painter, dies
6th - Stephen Elvey, composer, dies at 55
12th - Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73
24th - Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80
31st - Johan Nathan, murderer, hanged
31st - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775)
