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Historical Event(s)
– Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
– The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
– First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
– Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
– Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
– First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
– Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
– The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliot Bay to what would become Seattle, Washington.
– The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
– The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
– Durham Stevens, American diplomat (d. 1908)
– Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923)
– Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
– James Budd, Governor of California (d. 1908)
– Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1925)
– Felix Adler, German-born American educator (d. 1933)
– John Dillon, Irish nationalist (d. 1927)
– Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d. 1902)
– Thomas Chipman McRae, American politician (d. 1929)