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Historical Event(s)
– The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully-fledged university in south Asia.
– The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.
– Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against their commanding officers at Meerut.
– Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
– Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
– The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
– Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall’s war against the French.
– The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
– The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
– The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
Who Were Born On ?
– Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
– George Jackson Churchward, British railroad engineer. (d. 1933)
– Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
– Ballington Booth, English-born Salvation Army officer (d. 1940)
– Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918)
– William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1930)
– Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
– Janet Erskine Stuart, Sacred Heart educator (d. 1914)
– Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
– King Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885)