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Historical Event(s)
– Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
– Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
– John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
– Giuseppe Verdi’s third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy’s foremost opera writers.
– The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
– Anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
– John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert.
– The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
– Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
– The University of Notre Dame is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
– Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923)
– Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
– Ulric Dahlgren, American Unionist colonel (d. 1864)
– Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
– Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923)
– Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
– Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)
– Charles Cros, French poet and inventor (d. 1888)
– Ellen Swallow Richards, American scientist (d. 1911)