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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.
– Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
– Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
– 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.
– The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opens, the first dental school.
– Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
– The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
– Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
– 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)
– John Philip Holland, Irish inventor (d. 1914)
– Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)
– Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867)
– Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
– Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
– Dimitri Pisarev, Russian writer and social critic (d. 1868)
– Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
– Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain and German Empress (d. 1901)
– Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)