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Historical Event(s)
– “The Raven” is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
– Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
– The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
– The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
– 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.
– A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
– Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
– Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
– 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 ?
– Elihu Root, American statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1937)
– George Kennan, American explorer (d. 1924)
– Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916)
– Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1893)
– King Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
– Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (d. 1904)
– Will Carleton, American poet (d. 1912)
– Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
– Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (d. 1883)
– King George I of Greece (d. 1913)