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Historical Event(s)
– Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.
– Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
– Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
– Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
– The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
– First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
– The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
– William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel (moon) orbiting Uranus.
– Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
– The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliot Bay to what would become Seattle, Washington.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911)
– Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
– Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
– Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American politician (d. 1921)
– Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (d. 1933)
– Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
– Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist (d. 1887)
– Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d. 1902)
– Minnie Hauk, American soprano (d. 1929)
– Graciano Lopez Jaena, Filipino orator and satirist (d. 1896)