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Historical Event(s)
– Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
– Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.
– Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
– Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
– Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
– The first America’s Cup is won by the yacht America.
– Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
– Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
– The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
– Library of Congress burns.
Who Were Born On ?
– Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
– Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
– Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1925)
– Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
– Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (d. 1933)
– Millie and Christine McCoy, Conjoined twins (d. 1912)
– Edward Ashael Birge, American pioneer in limnology (d. 1950)
– Ferdinand Foch, French soldier (d. 1929)
– Empress Myeongseong, Empress of Korea (d. 1895)
– Melvil Dewey, American librarian, (d. 1931)