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Historical Event(s)
– The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
– The event that inspired the Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held in England.
– The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
– 1843 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, proclaimed a revelation recommending polygamy.
– Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
– The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
– In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
– The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes.
– Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
Who Were Born On ?
– Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
– Inoue Kowashi, Japanese statesman (d. 1895)
– Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
– Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900)
– Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
– Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
– C.I. Scofield, author of Scofield Reference Bible (d. 1921)
– David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
– Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist; father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
– Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (d. 1898)