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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.
– Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
– 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.
– The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
– 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.
– Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
– American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
– The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg’s unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
Who Were Born On ?
– Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926)
– Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938)
– Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (d. 1922)
– Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941)
– George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1950)
– Diamond Jim Brady, American financier (d. 1917)
– Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (d. 1916)
– Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909)
– Louis Sullivan, American architect (d. 1924)