Switzerland opened the world’s first commercial cheese factory.
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P.T. Barnum purchased the world-famous circus elephant Jumbo.
Mother Teresa and The Pope met in Calcutta, where they both fed the sick.
The temperature plunged to -81.4°F in Snag, Yukon, Canada, making it the coldest recorded temperature in North America.
The first paper money was issued in America in the Colony of Massachusetts.
New Zealand suffered its most fatal natural disaster in history during the Hawke's Bay Earthquake.