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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– Opening of the first major US world’s fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
– Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
– 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 ?
– André Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
– Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
– Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (d. 1871)
– Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914)
– Dan Brouthers, baseball player (d. 1932)
– Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
– Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
– Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
– Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess of Saxe Meiningen (d. 1923)
– Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a PhD (d. 1944)