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Historical Event(s)
– The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
– The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
– John Henry Newman leaves the Church of England and is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
– Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
– Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
– The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
– The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
– Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
– U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
– Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
Who Were Born On ?
– Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1926)
– Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
– Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
– Julian Scott, American artist and American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1901)
– William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, American frontiersman (d. 1917)
– Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (d. 1850)
– Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian book-smuggler (d. 1918)
– Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
– Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
– Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish independence fighter (d. 1891)