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Historical Event(s)
– President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
– Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
– The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
– The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
– The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.
– Opening of the first major US world’s fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
– Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
– Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
– Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
– A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England, United Kingdom
Who Were Born On ?
– Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
– José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
– Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
– Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
– Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
– Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
– Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)
– Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess of Saxe Meiningen (d. 1923)
– Lillie Langtry, British actress (d. 1929)
– Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)