Edwin Prescott was awarded a patent for the vertical loop Roller Coaster.
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A solar flare from the sun created a geomagnetic storm, which caused Toronto's stock market to halt.
Queen Victoria of Britain sent the first-ever transatlantic telegraph to US President James Buchanan.
More than 1,200 tin homes were destroyed after a fire broke out in the Chalantika slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published.
The world's first colored cartoon with synchronized sound was released.
