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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.
– The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University.
– 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.
– A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
– 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.
– The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
Who Were Born On ?
– J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (d. 1919)
– Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910)
– Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915)
– José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan politician (d. 1929)
– Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
– Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
– Robert Stewart, South African cricketer (d. 1913)
– Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children’s author (d. 1923)
– Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, German statesman (d. 1921)
– Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (d. 1918)