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 ... Read more
