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Historical Event(s)
– Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
– The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
– 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.
– The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
– Liberia declares independence.
– 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.
– Stephen Foster’s well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
– Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
Who Were Born On ?
– Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor (d. 1931)
– Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
– Ellen Terry, English actress (d.1928)
– John Lister, English politician (d. 1933)
– Oscar Hammerstein I, American theater producer and impresario (d. 1919)
– Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
– Rose Scott, Australian social reformer (d. 1925)
– Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
– George Grossmith, English actor and writer (d. 1912)
– Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)