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Historical Event(s)
– Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
– 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.
– Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is published.
– The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
– 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.
– The City of Anaheim is founded.
– The Atlantic founded in Boston.
– Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
Who Were Born On ?
– Martha Carey Thomas, American educator, suffragist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College (d. 1935)
– William E. Russell, American politician (d. 1896)
– William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)
– Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
– Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and novelist (d. 1935)
– Ronald Ross, English physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1932)
– Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
– Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (d. 1944)
– William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1930)