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Historical Event(s)
– President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
– Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
– Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
– The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
– The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
– The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.
– Opening of the first major US world’s fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
– Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
– Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
– Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
Who Were Born On ?
– Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937)
– Alva Belmont, American socialite (d. 1933)
– Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (d. 1900)
– Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (d. 1871)
– Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
– Lillie Langtry, British actress (d. 1929)
– Bat Masterson, American Old West figure (d. 1921)
– Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a PhD (d. 1944)
– Haraprasad Shastri, Indian scholar and historian (d. 1931)