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Historical Event(s)
– Giuseppe Verdi’s opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.
– The event that inspired the Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held in England.
– 1843 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, proclaimed a revelation recommending polygamy.
– Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
– Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
– In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
– The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes.
– Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
– Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol goes on sale.
Who Were Born On ?
– John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
– Inoue Kowashi, Japanese statesman (d. 1895)
– William Henry Jackson, American photographer (d. 1942)
– Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
– Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900)
– William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
– Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
– Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist; father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
– Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
– Elisabeth of Wied, queen of Romania and novelist (d. 1916)