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Historical Event(s)
– University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
– A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
– Hong Kong Police Force, the world’s second, Asia’s first modern police force is established.
– Persian Prophet The Báb announces his revelation, founding Bábism. He announces to the world the coming of “He whom God shall make manifest”. He is considered the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
– Declaration of the Báb: a merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
– Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
– Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
– The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
– Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
– The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
Who Were Born On ?
– Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
– Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
– Charles-Marie Widor, French composer (d. 1937)
– Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist (d. 1908)
– Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
– Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
– Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1908)
– Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
– Paul Taffanel, French flautist (d. 1908)
– William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)