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Historical Event(s)
– John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
– Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
– The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
– The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
– Liberia declares independence.
– 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.
– Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
– The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
– Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ellen Terry, English actress (d.1928)
– John Lister, English politician (d. 1933)
– Joseph Pulitzer, American journalist and publisher (d. 1911)
– Henry Demarest Lloyd, American journalist (d. 1903)
– Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923)
– Queen Maria Victoria al Pozzo della Cisterna of Spain (d. 1876)
– Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
– Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
– Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
– George Grossmith, English actor and writer (d. 1912)