The English explorer Verney Cameron became the first European to cross Africa from east to west.
Source
President Eisenhower won his second term with the most significant Republican win since Abraham Lincoln's in 1860.
Lord Dunmore promised freedom to every slave who enlisted into the British Army.
Paris barred women from legally wearing pants.
Using Johannes Kepler's predictions, French scientist Pierre Gassendi became the first person to witness Mercury's transit between the Earth and the Sun.
New York City elected its first African American Mayor, David Dinkins.
