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Historical Event(s)
– The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
– Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
– Gaetano Donizetti’s opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.
– Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
– The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
– The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
– The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
– Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
– Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
– The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
– Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
– Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902)
– Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (d. 1911)
– Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927)
– Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
– Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and writer (d. 1922)
– Honoré Mercier, politician and premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
– Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
– Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain and German Empress (d. 1901)