Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist and academic (d. 1904)
Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1 January 1852 – 5 March 1903) was a French chemist who designed highly specialized apparatus for use in his research. A specialist in the emerging field of spectroscopy, he detected the presence of the rare earth element europium in 1896, and isolated it as the oxide europia in 1901. He helped Marie Curie to confirm the existence of another new element, radium, in 1898.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. - 3Aug
Harvard-Yale Regatta
Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event - 21Aug
Fort Selkirk
Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory. - 24Sep
Henri Giffard
The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes. - 16Nov
22 Kalliope
The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.