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Historical Event(s)
– New Roman Republic established
– In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
– The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
– Hungary becomes a republic.
– Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
– Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
– The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
– Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
– The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
– The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
Who Were Born On ?
– John Hartley, English tennis player (d. 1935)
– August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
– Georg Luger, Austrian inventor (d. 1923)
– John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917)
– Jacob August Riis, American journalist (d. 1914)
– Sir William Osler, Canadian physician and author (d. 1919)
– Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian writer, statesman, and abolitionist (d. 1910)
– Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905)
– Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
– James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)