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Historical Event(s)
– Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
– A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
– First performance of Finland’s national anthem.
– Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
– Women’s rights: a two-day Women’s Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the “Bloomers” are introduced.
– Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
– The United States annexes New Mexico.
– Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
– Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
– Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jean Aicard, French poet (d. 1921)
– Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909)
– Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-born American sculptor (d. 1907)
– Adelsteen Normann, Norwegian painter (d. 1919)
– Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (d. 1896)
– Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
– Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
– Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
– Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)
– Boston Custer, brother of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)