What Happened In April 1858 In History

Historical Events for April, 1858

• 10th » After the original Big Ben, a Convert 14.5 tonne lb bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current convert 13.76 tonne lb bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
• 16th » The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scotland known as Scottish learned society, is wound up.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1858

• 3rd » Jacob Gaudaur, Canadian rower (d. 1937)
• 4th » Remy de Gourmont, French author, poet, and critic (d. 1915)
• 5th » Washington Atlee Burpee, Canadian businessman, founded Burpee Seeds (d. 1915)
• 15th » Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917)
• 18th » Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist (d. 1962)
• 23rd » Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
• 23rd » Ethel Smyth, English composer (d. 1944)

Famous Deaths for April 1858

• 7th » Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer (b. 1781)
• 28th » Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist (b. 1801)

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