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.
Paris barred women from legally wearing pants.
Colorado became the second US state to give women the right to vote.
The London Gazette published its first edition under the name The Oxford Gazette.
President Eisenhower won his second term with the most significant Republican win since Abraham Lincoln's in 1860.
