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Historical Event(s)
– First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
– Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
– The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
– The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
– Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
– William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel (moon) orbiting Uranus.
– French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
– The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
– The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
– The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
Who Were Born On ?
– Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923)
– Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
– William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)
– Emile Berliner, German-born recording pioneer (d. 1929)
– Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1925)
– Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
– Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American politician (d. 1921)
– Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
– Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece (d. 1926)
– Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (d. 1902)