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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 ?
– Joseph Lister, English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery (d. 1912)
– William Nelson Hall, Canadian sailor (d. 1904)
– Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
– Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (d. 1921)
– William P. Sprague, American politician (d. 1899)
– Samuel F. Miller, New York representative to the U.S. House of Representatives (d. 1892)
– Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
– Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
– Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
– Ellen G. White, American leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (d. 1915)