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Historical Event(s)
– First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
– The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Calcutta.
– The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
– Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker’s filibusters are holed up.
– Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
– John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
– A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
– The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
– Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
– The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg’s unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
Who Were Born On ?
– Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (d. 1934)
– Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877)
– Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941)
– Robert Peary, American explorer (d. 1920)
– José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan politician (d. 1929)
– George Coulthard, Former Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
– William Willett, English daylight saving time advocate (d. 1915)
– Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, German statesman (d. 1921)
– Svetozar Boroević, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920)
– Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate, and 34th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1924)