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Historical Event(s)
– The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
– Michigan State University is established.
– Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
– The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania)
– Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas – “Border Ruffians” from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
– American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
– Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
– In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman’s book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
– Indian Wars: in Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
– David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889)
– Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922)
– Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
– Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
– John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
– Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
– Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-German author of books on nationalism and race (d. 1927)
– James S. Sherman, American politician & 27th Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
– E.S. Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
– Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (d. 1912)