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Historical Event(s)
– The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
– The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory.
– Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt.
– The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
– Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
– Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
– Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
– William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
– Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
– Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
– Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
– Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923)
– Léon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
– Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
– Daniel Burnham, American architect (d. 1912)
– Richard With, Norwegian businessman, politician and captain, founder of Hurtigruten (d. 1930)
– George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
– Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)