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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 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.
– Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
– The University of Notre Dame is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)
– William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officer (d. 1908)
– Ulric Dahlgren, American Unionist colonel (d. 1864)
– Jules Massenet, French composer (d. 1912)
– Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
– Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, American publisher, journalist, suffragist and civil rights leader (d. 1924)
– Johannes Zukertort, German chess master (d. 1888)
– Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)
– Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
– Phoebe Hearst, American socialite (d. 1919)