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Historical Event(s)
– In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
– The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
– The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
– 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.
– John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (d. 1903)
– Benjamin Waugh, social reformer; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
– Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
– Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (d. 1881)
– Frederick Halsey, English Conservative Party politician (d. 1927)
– Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
– Henry George, American economist (d. 1897)
– Isaac K. Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
– Edward P. Allen, American politician (d. 1909)
– Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)