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Historical Event(s)
– The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
– Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
– Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
– The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.
– Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is published.
– The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
– Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall’s war against the French.
– The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
– The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
– Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)
– Émile Coué, French psychologist (d. 1926)
– Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936)
– George Gore, American baseball player (d. 1933)
– Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Austro-Hungarian Colonel General (d. 1935)
– Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911)
– José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican politician (d. 1921)
– Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918)
– Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (d. 1926)
– King Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885)