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Historical Event(s)
– The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
– The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
– The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
– The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
– 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”.
– The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
– The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
– 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 ?
– Benjamin Waugh, social reformer; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
– Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
– Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888)
– Tôn Thất Thuyết, the leading mandarin of Vietnam’s Nguyễn Dynasty (d. 1913)
– Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
– Isaac K. Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
– Ira Davenport, American magician (d. 1911)
– Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
– Edward P. Allen, American politician (d. 1909)
– August Kundt, German physicist (d. 1894)