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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.
– The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
– The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
– 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.
– The University of Notre Dame is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– A. A. Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
– Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (d. 1927)
– Sidney Lanier, American writer (d. 1881)
– Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter (d. 1901)
– Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1933)
– John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920)
– Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923)
– Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
– Phoebe Hearst, American socialite (d. 1919)
– Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician; (d. 1899)