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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.
– Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
– 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 ?
– Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947)
– Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (d. 1900)
– Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
– Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
– Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
– Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
– John Drew Jr., American actor (d. 1927)
– Haraprasad Shastri, Indian scholar and historian (d. 1931)
– Errico Malatesta, Italian anarcho-communist (d. 1932)
– Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)