Nikephoros II Phokas was crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
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Queen Victoria of Britain sent the first-ever transatlantic telegraph to US President James Buchanan.
A solar flare from the sun created a geomagnetic storm, which caused Toronto's stock market to halt.
Edwin Prescott was awarded a patent for the vertical loop Roller Coaster.
NASA launched its Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers mission (AMPTE) from the Cape Canaveral launch pad.
More than 1,200 tin homes were destroyed after a fire broke out in the Chalantika slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
