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Historical Event(s)
– Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
– The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.
– A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
– The U.S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
– William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served.
– The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier
– U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
– The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
– Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
– James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
Who Were Born On ?
– Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
– Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor General of Canada (d. 1908)
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1935)
– Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
– Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
– Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (d. 1887)
– Johnny Mullagh, Australian cricketer (d. 1891)
– Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)
– Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)
– Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)