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Historical Event(s)
– The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
– Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
– Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
– Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
– Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
– Francis Baily observes “Baily’s beads” during an annular eclipse.
– The formation of the London Working Men’s Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
– Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
– The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
– South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
– Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
– Winslow Homer, American artist (d. 1910)
– Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
– Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904)
– Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (d. 1900)
– Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1916)
– Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (d. 1896)
– Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (d. 1902)
– Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904)