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A report on diversity in British book publishing, Writing the Future (authored by Danuta Kean for Bernardine Evaristo 's agency Spread the Word ), was launched at the London Book Fair .

Daniel O'Connell introduced in the British Parliament debate on Repeal of the Union between Ireland and England.

The first Indian National Congress met in Calcutta to promote Indian advancement.

Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly leader of the Scottish Kirk , held a secret meeting with a group of Edinburgh matrons to enlist their aid in resistance against the imposition of the new (...

The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System began processing data for the American census. This first mechanized census took five years less processing time than the census of 1880.

The Women's Football Association was established.

A British expedition sent to invade Cuba reached Havana.

The Church of the Sacré-Coeur was built in Paris, funded by public subscription.

The Local Authorities (Ireland) (Qualification of Women) Act gave Irish women the right to sit on county councils and boroughs.

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published the comedicnovelA Woman of Business by Mary Bramston , with illustrations by W. H. Overend .

Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and the Last Man argued that the process of national and international change and struggle called history had ended with the acceptance of technology, capitalism, and Western liberal...

The secret society of the Illuminati was founded in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.

US poet Frances Osgood published A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England.

Eugène Sue published Les mystères de Paris.

An uprising in Prague (sometimes later referred to as the Prague Spring) was suppressed by the military power of the USSR, whose tanks crossed the border on this day.

The Conference of Typographical Societies moved to recommend women's admission to typographical unions provided that they were paid equal wages.

Robert Gould licensed his Poems, Chiefly Consisting of Satyrs and Satyrical Epistles: it included The Poetess, aimed primarily at Aphra Behn .

Sigrid Undset 's powerful and evocative novelistic descriptions of Scandinavian life in the Middle Ages gained her the Nobel Prize in Literature. (The British Sir Owen Willans Richardson won the prize in Physics.)

Breaking with established department store practice, Harrods began to offer credit to select customers.

Germany launched V1 or V-1 rockets against England; six people were killed at Bethnal Green. Unlike conventional bombers, rockets attacked by day as well as by night.

Bobby Sands , a member of the Provisional IRA , died in the Maze Prison near Belfast, where for two months he had been leading his final hunger strike.

A revolution took place in Vienna, where protesters—both students and urban working-class people—successfully urged the Emperor Ferdinand to dismiss Clemens Von Metternich .

The first home computer appeared on the market in the USA: the MITS Altair 8800, selling at $395 in the form of a kit for home assembly.

Black musician Frank Johnson and his Philadelphia band were the first American band to tour Britain.