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Historical Event(s)
– John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
– The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
– Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
– Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
– After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
– Cumberland School of Law is founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States, one of only 15 law schools to exist in the United States at the end of 1847.
– Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
– German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
– Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
– Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
Who Were Born On ?
– Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
– Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (d. 1929)
– James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (d. 1906)
– Queen Maria Victoria al Pozzo della Cisterna of Spain (d. 1876)
– Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
– Fanny Holland, English singer and comic actress (d. 1931)
– Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian writer (d. 1906)
– Emperor Hiep Hoa, the sixth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty (d. 1883)
– Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
– Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, 6th President of Brazil (d. 1909)