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Historical Event(s)
– The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
– Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
– John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
– Slavery is abolished in New York State.
– José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
– Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
– Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
– Bellini’s third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Who Were Born On ?
– Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
– Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
– William Holman Hunt, English painter (d. 1910)
– Lew Wallace, American Civil War figure and novelist (d. 1905)
– Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, Indian social reformer (d. 1890)
– Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900)
– Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
– Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
– Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
– Richard Morris Hunt, American educator (d. 1895)