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Historical Event(s)
– The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
– The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
– Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens’ magazine, Household Words.
– The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
– The civil death procedure is abolished in France.
– The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
– 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.
– Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
– 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 ?
– Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (d. 1941)
– Ioannis Psycharis, Greek author and linguist (d. 1929)
– John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)
– Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
– E.W. Scripps, American journalist and publisher (d. 1926)
– Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (d. 1925)
– Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
– Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
– Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
– John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)