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Historical Event(s)
– German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
– Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
– Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens’ magazine, Household Words.
– The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
– Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
– The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
– The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
– The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
– Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman.
– In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
Who Were Born On ?
– Tommaso Alberto Vittorio of Savoy-Genoa, Italian prince (d. 1931)
– Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
– William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907)
– Ioannis Psycharis, Greek author and linguist (d. 1929)
– John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)
– Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
– George Eastman, American inventor (d. 1932)
– David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d. 1929)
– Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and banking executive (d. 1920)
– Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)