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Members of the female auxiliary were allowed to attend Bible Society public meetings.

Fredrika Bremer , author and activist for women's rights, died in Årsta, Sweden.

John William Colenso , Bishop of Natal, published the first volume of his controversial The Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua Critically Examined, challenging the literal truth of the Bible on scientific grounds.

At the Haymarket Theatre the final performance was given of The Genius of Nonsense, a play which mocked James Graham , health-and-sex pundit, as the Emperor of Quacks.

The Collected Works of C. G. Jung was published; it included discussions, originally published in two essays in 1917, on introversion and extroversion.

Walter Greenwood published Love on the Dole, a novel about life in depression Britain which sold 46,290 copies by 1940.

J. M. Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker Prize a second time, with Disgrace; his Life & Times of Martin K. had won in 1983.

According to an announcement by scientists at NASA after more than a year of examining the data (though even then a few other space scientists remain sceptical) the spacecraft Voyager 1 (launched from the Earth...

The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society was founded, to provide charity to London's poor.

There was published The Female Soldier; or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell, who claimed to have served undetected for five years in the army, wearing men's clothes.

David Clapham translated Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim 's treatise De Nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, 1529, as Treatise on the Nobility of Womankind.

Church bells (which quite recently had stood ready to signal invasion) were rung all over Britain, in the wake of the battle of El Alamein, to celebrate the defeat of Rommel .

John Bunyan published a tract examining the relation of women to the church: A Case of Conscience Resolved.

Anthony Wood , passionate collector of historical ephemera, carried off for his collection a petition to parliament which he found provided as toilet paper in a London privy.

Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections by Penelope Gilliatt collected her various reviews and profiles of celebrities (including Nabokov , Hitchcock , Woody Allen , and Diane Keaton ).

Parliament passed the Septennial Act, which set the maximum duration of a British government at seven years before an election had to be called (more than twice the previous three-year term).

The first volume of Gilbert Burnet 's History of His Own Times (begun in 1683) was posthumously published by his son Sir Thomas Burnet .

Britain abandoned the gold standard.

A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament in 1745 declared that from this date any marriage of a Protestant solemnised by a Catholic priest (whether to a Catholic or Protestant) was null and void.

The Council of the College of Physicians in Edinburgh decided, by a vote of eighteen to sixteen, against admitting women.

The first lying-in hospital in Great Britain was established in Edinburgh.

The Black US singer Josephine Baker , aged nineteen, met with phenomenal success in Paris; she was seen as exemplifying the Jazz Age on one hand and a new racial consciousness on the other.

Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly the English Channel: from Deal in England to Cape Gris-Nez in France.

The first conference of the Women's Co-operative Guild was held at Hooper Square, Leman Street, London.

The Endowed Schools Act effected educational reform and improved funding for girls' schooling.

Sir John Sinclair circulated to Church of Scotland clergymen his questionnaire about their parishes: their history, geography, antiquities, natural history, demography, commerce, industry, and manners.

The Liverpool Overhead Railway opened: it was the first elevated city electric line.

Jacob Burckhardt published Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien.

Granta magazine's first listing of twenty Best of Young British Novelists included the names of six women: Pat Barker , Ursula Bentley , Buchi Emecheta , Maggie Gee , Lisa St Auban de Teran , and Rose Tremain .

Josephine Saxton published two science fictionstories, The Consciousness Machine and Jane Saint and the Backlash: The Further Travails of Jane Saint, in a single volume from Women's Press.

William Taylor wrote the first recorded instance of the word autobiography (in a Monthly Review notice of Isaac D'Israeli 's Miscellanies).

The Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Review began quarterly publication in London.

The newspaper of the emerging Independent Labour Party , The Labour Leader, first appeared. It ran until 28 September 1922, after which the title changed to the New Leader.

Francis Hutcheson published anonymously, in two separate forms, An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, in two treatises, one on aesthetics (beauty, order, harmony, design) and one...

A skeleton of the first known remains of the people subsequently named Neanderthals (an ice age subspecies of Homo sapiens) was found in the Neander Valley, near Düsseldorf.

Jeremy Bentham 's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation was published.

The first telephone conversation over a significant distance (eight miles) was made by Alexander Graham Bell .

Sputnik 2 was launched by the Soviet Union, carrying a dog named Laika, the first animal to reach orbit around the earth.

Suzanne Berne of the USA won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her novelA Crime In The Neighborhood.

Londoner Isabella Rushton Preston published anonymously, through John Murray , her Handbook of Familiar Quotations from English Authors. This became a leading source for the better-known, American Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1855.

The British Magazine, a leading conservative periodical, began publication.

Émile Zola published Thérèse Raquin, a naturalistic novel treating adultery, murder, and poetic justice.

John Ruskin published The Foundations, the first volume of his influential study of architecture and culture entitled The Stones of Venice.

New Zealand pilot Jean Batten flew a Gypsy Moth from England to Australia. She beat British pilot Amy Johnson 's 1930 record by five days, and became the fist woman to complete the return trip.