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Historical Event(s)
– The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
– Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
– Gaetano Donizetti’s opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.
– The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opens, the first dental school.
– The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
– The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
– York Minster is badly damaged by fire
– Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
– The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
– The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
Who Were Born On ?
– Louis Nazaire Bégin, Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
– Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (Maxim gun) (d. 1916)
– Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892)
– Myles Keogh, American soldier of fortune (d. 1876)
– Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military, participated on Battle of Huamachuco (d. 1912)
– Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
– Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923)
– Thomas Nast, German-born American political cartoonist (d. 1902)
– Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
– Namık Kemal, Turkish nationalist poet (d. 1888)