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Historical Event(s)
– The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed.
– President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
– Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
– Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
– The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
– The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
– In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.
– Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
– Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
– In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, United States annexes the Mexican state of Texas, following the Manifest Destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
Who Were Born On ?
– George Kennan, American explorer (d. 1924)
– Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
– André Bessette, Canadian religious figure (d. 1937)
– Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (d. 1904)
– Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1921)
– St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)
– Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
– Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
– Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
– José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese novelist (d. 1900)