Italian nationalist Felice Orsini hurled bombs at Emperor Napoleon III's carriage in Paris, killing eight bystanders but leaving the emperor unharmed.

Minnesota became the 32nd U.S. state, entering the Union after decades of territorial settlement, fur trade expansion, and conflict with Dakota and Ojibwe nations.

British forces under Colin Campbell completed the recapture of Lucknow from Indian rebels, a decisive blow against the 1857 Indian Rebellion.

Minnesota entered the Union as the 32nd state, its admission shaped by land ceded through treaties with Dakota and Ojibwe nations only years earlier.

Qing China signed the Treaty of Tientsin with Britain, forcibly opening additional treaty ports and permitting foreign legations in Beijing.

Bernadette Soubirous experienced her final vision of the Virgin Mary at the Lourdes grotto, capping months of apparitions that made the French town a global pilgrimage site.

Just weeks after triumphant transatlantic telegraph messages, the 1858 cable's signal failed permanently, ending the first attempt to wire two continents together.