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Historical Event(s)
– Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
– Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
– Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
– Westminster’s Big Ben rang for the first time in London.
– The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
– Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
– Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
– King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
– Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
– Solar Superstorm
Who Were Born On ?
– Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
– Victor Herbert, Irish composer (d. 1924)
– Abraham H. Cannon, American religious figure (d. 1896)
– Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936)
– Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (d. 1938)
– Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (d. 1929)
– Yuan Shikai, Chinese politician (d. 1916)
– Julius Klengel, cellist and composer (d. 1933)
– Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941)
– Charles Brantley Aycock, 50th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina (d. 1912)