Are you not curious to discover some fun facts about your birthday? Find out ‘what happened on my birthday’ and what was the number one song on your day of birth. Know the meaning of your special day and who shares your birthday! (Sponsored link)
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 ?
– Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
– Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
– Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
– Joseph Lister, English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery (d. 1912)
– Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900)
– Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (d. 1921)
– Samuel F. Miller, New York representative to the U.S. House of Representatives (d. 1892)
– Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
– Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
– Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)