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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.
– Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
– 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.
– Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
– 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 ?
– André Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
– Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (d. 1900)
– Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
– William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
– Cecil Rhodes, British founder of Rhodesia (d. 1902)
– Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher (d. 1920)
– Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
– Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
– Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (d. 1883)
– Haraprasad Shastri, Indian scholar and historian (d. 1931)