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Historical Event(s)
– The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully-fledged university in south Asia.
– An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
– 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: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
– Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
– The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
– 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.
– Sheffield F.C., the world’s first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
– Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
– Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
Who Were Born On ?
– Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
– George Jackson Churchward, British railroad engineer. (d. 1933)
– Bobby Peel, English cricketer (d. 1943)
– Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936)
– Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (d. 1893)
– Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
– Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. (d. 1930)
– Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918)
– Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish Language writer (d. 1942)
– King Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885)