British warship Pelican attacks and captures US war brigantine Argus

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Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1899

Birth

Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha

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1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC

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Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brig General (Confederate Army)

Birth

Karel Miry, composer

Birth

General Lafayette returns to US

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William Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888

Birth

Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out

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Luigi Cagnola, architect, dies

Death

Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer, dies at 63

Death

Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen)

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Baron Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist

Birth

Johann F Herbart, German philosopher (General P„dagogik), dies at 65

Death

Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author

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Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma

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Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies

Death

Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance

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Oregon Territory created

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Earnest YY [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Kloris and Roses)

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William Buckland, dean (Westminister)/geologist, dies

Death

George Combe, phrenologist, dies

Death

Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938)

Birth

Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor

Birth

Martial Law is declared at St Louis MI

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