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Historical Event(s)
– The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
– In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
– Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
– The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today’s Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
– United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
– John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
– The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
– Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
– A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
– In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
– Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physicist (d. 1903)
– Tôn Thất Thuyết, the leading mandarin of Vietnam’s Nguyễn Dynasty (d. 1913)
– Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
– Nelson Miles, American general (d. 1925)
– Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
– Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
– Henry George, American economist (d. 1897)
– Ira Davenport, American magician (d. 1911)
– Edward P. Allen, American politician (d. 1909)