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Historical Event(s)
– The world’s first “Mercy” Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the Sisters of Mercy, the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
– The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
– Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
– Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
– Cumberland School of Law is founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States, one of only 15 law schools to exist in the United States at the end of 1847.
– Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
– Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
– The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
– The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
– The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (d. 1918)
– Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
– Henry Demarest Lloyd, American journalist (d. 1903)
– Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929)
– Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1922)
– Annie Besant, British theosophist and feminist (d. 1933)
– Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
– Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
– Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
– George Grossmith, English actor and writer (d. 1912)