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Historical Event(s)
– The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
– Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
– Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
– Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
– The French government announces that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the world”.
– United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
– The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
– Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
– A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
– In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
– Tôn Thất Thuyết, the leading mandarin of Vietnam’s Nguyễn Dynasty (d. 1913)
– Arthur Tooth, English Anglican clergyman (d. 1931)
– Sam Watkins, American Confederate soldier and author (d. 1901)
– John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937)
– Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
– Ira Davenport, American magician (d. 1911)
– Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
– George Armstrong Custer, American general (d. 1876)
– János Murkovics, Slovene writer and teacher in Hungary (d. 1917)