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Historical Event(s)
– University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
– The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
– A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
– King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
– One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
– Hong Kong Police Force, the world’s second, Asia’s first modern police force is established.
– Declaration of the Báb: a merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
– Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
– Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
– Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
– G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (d. 1924)
– Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
– Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
– Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
– Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
– Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
– Ernest Myers, English poet, Classicist and author (d. 1921)
– Sarah Bernhardt, French Actress (d. 1923)
– Karl Benz, German engineer and inventor (d. 1929)