The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
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The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
The first traveller’s cheques, in the form of a ‘circular note’ issued by a bank, went on sale in London.
The Persian poet and philosopher Nasir Khusraw began a seven-year journey through the Islamic world that he recorded in the Safarnama.