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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.
– Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
– Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
– The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
– 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.
– The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
Who Were Born On ?
– Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923)
– Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1925)
– Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American politician (d. 1921)
– Sir Oliver Lodge, English physicist and writer (d. 1940)
– Millie and Christine McCoy, Conjoined twins (d. 1912)
– Yannoulis Chalepas, Greek sculptor (d. 1938)
– Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece (d. 1926)
– Charles Dupuy, French prime minister (d. 1923)
– Minnie Hauk, American soprano (d. 1929)