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Historical Event(s)
– The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
– Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
– Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
– “The Spirits Book” by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
– 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.
– Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
– 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 Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
– The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
– 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)
– Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936)
– Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (d. 1893)
– Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and novelist (d. 1935)
– Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940)
– Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
– Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)
– Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918)
– Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
– Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)