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Historical Event(s)
– The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
– The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
– The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
– Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
– French invasion of Algeria
– The General Assembly’s Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
– Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
– The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in US railroading.
– The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
– St. Catherine Laboure experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.
Who Were Born On ?
– Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, Prussian musician (d. 1913)
– Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1914)
– John Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer (d. 1906)
– Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
– Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897)
– Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
– William Sprague IV, American politician (d. 1915)
– Marianne North, English naturalist and flower painter (d. 1890)
– Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
– Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (d. 1895)