The English explorer Verney Cameron became the first European to cross Africa from east to west.
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The opera company The Deutsche Opernhaus (now know as Deutsche Oper Berlin) was founded. They opened with a performance of The Deutsche Opernhaus.
President Eisenhower won his second term with the most significant Republican win since Abraham Lincoln's in 1860.
John Austin became the last person to be publicly hanged on London's Tyburn Gallows.
Paris barred women from legally wearing pants.
New York City elected its first African American Mayor, David Dinkins.
