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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.
– Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
– Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
– Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
– 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 ?
– Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (d. 1926)
– Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (d. 1900)
– Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
– Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)
– Vladimir Korolenko, Ukrainian-Russian writer (d. 1921)
– Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
– Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
– Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
– Hussein Kamal, Sultan of Egypt (d. 1917)
– Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919)