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Historical Event(s)
– The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
– The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
– The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
– German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
– Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
– Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
– The civil death procedure is abolished in France.
– In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
– Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
– The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
Who Were Born On ?
– Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
– Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920)
– Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
– Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
– E.W. Scripps, American journalist and publisher (d. 1926)
– Robert Laird Borden, Canadian politician (d. 1937)
– David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d. 1929)
– John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)
– Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)
– Herman Bavinck, Dutch theologian and churchman (d. 1921)