The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_of_the_Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway" id="mwfQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway">Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" id="mwfg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">British MP</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Huskisson" id="mwfw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Huskisson">William Huskisson</a> becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive <i id="mwgA"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson's_Rocket" id="mwgQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Stephenson's Rocket">Rocket</a></i>.