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Historical Event(s)
– The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
– Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
– The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
– Liberia declares independence.
– 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.
– Stephen Foster’s well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
– Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
– German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
– Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
– The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
Who Were Born On ?
– Anna Howard Shaw, American suffragette (d. 1919)
– Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
– Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
– Joseph Pulitzer, American journalist and publisher (d. 1911)
– Hans Auer, Swiss architect (d. 1906)
– Oscar Hammerstein I, American theater producer and impresario (d. 1919)
– Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
– Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (d. 1934)
– Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)