2008 Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest US investment bank, filed for bankruptcy, bringing the global financial system close to collapse.
1866 John Blake Dillon (50), lawyer, Young Irelander and co-founder of The Nation (1842), died from cholera.
1859 Isambard Kingdom Brunel (53), Victorian engineer, died. Brunel’s SS Great Britain—the world’s first liner to be made entirely from iron and powered by a propeller—ran aground on the sands of Dundrum Bay, Co. Down, in September 1846 and remained there for eleven months.
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