Switzerland opened the world’s first commercial cheese factory.
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P.T. Barnum purchased the world-famous circus elephant Jumbo.
A week-long blizzard struck Iran and killed 4,000 people, making it the deadliest in history.
The temperature plunged to -81.4°F in Snag, Yukon, Canada, making it the coldest recorded temperature in North America.
New Zealand suffered its most fatal natural disaster in history during the Hawke's Bay Earthquake.
A Russian cosmonaut flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle for the first time.
