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Historical Event(s)
– The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
– After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
– The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory.
– First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
– John Henry Newman leaves the Church of England and is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
– Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
– President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War
– Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
– The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
– Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
Who Were Born On ?
– Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
– Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904)
– William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, American frontiersman (d. 1917)
– Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
– Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
– Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
– Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian Slovene writer (d. 1906)
– Georges Auguste Escoffier, French chef (d. 1935)
– Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)