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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).
– The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
– Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
– The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
– Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
– The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg’s unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
Who Were Born On ?
– Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (d. 1937)
– Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
– Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910)
– Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933)
– Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915)
– Robert Peary, American explorer (d. 1920)
– Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist (d. 1889)
– Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, German statesman (d. 1921)
– Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (d. 1918)