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Historical Event(s)
– Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
– In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
– Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.
– The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
– Hungary becomes a republic.
– The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal’s English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
– The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
– A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
– American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
– The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ida Straus, American passenger aboard the Titanic (d.1912)
– Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (d. 1906)
– Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
– Pedro Montt, President of Chile (d. 1910)
– William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
– Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
– August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
– Henrietta Edwards, Canadian women’s rights activist (d. 1931)