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Historical Event(s)
– Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
– Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
– John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
– The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
– Anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
– John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert.
– The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
– The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
– Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
– Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
Who Were Born On ?
– A. A. Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
– Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891)
– Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (d. 1911)
– Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
– Johannes Zukertort, German chess master (d. 1888)
– John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920)
– Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
– Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
– Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
– Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)