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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.
– 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.
– The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
– 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 ?
– Saint Mary MacKillop, Australian Saint (d. 1909)
– Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (d. 1918)
– Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891)
– Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
– Alfred Marshall, neoclassical economist (d. 1924)
– Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
– Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
– Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
– Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
– Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician; (d. 1899)