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Historical Event(s)
– Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the 1st time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
– The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
– Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
– First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
– Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
– First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
– The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
– Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
– A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
– The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
Who Were Born On ?
– Wilhelm Cohn, German chess master (d. 1913)
– George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer and inventor (d. 1896)
– Sholom Aleichem, Russian novelist (d. 1916)
– Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer (d. 1943)
– Frank Dawson Adams, Canadian geologist (d.1942)
– Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
– Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941)
– Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
– L. L. Zamenhof, Polish initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
– Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)