Richard Walker discovers Saturn’s moon Epimetheus.

The first issue of Vogue magazine is published

The last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan occurs.

46 people are killed as the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River collapses.

The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened.

The Neuengamme concentration camp is opened in Hamburg, Germany.

Calcutta is replaced by Delhi as the capital of India.

Muhammad leads an army of 10 000 to take over Mecca.

‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; by Mark Twain is published.

Gabriel Narutowicz is elected as the first president of Poland.