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★30 Mar 1842
American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure.

★19 Sep 1846
Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, reported experiencing a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.

★12 Oct 1847
Werner von Siemens, a German inventor, founded Siemens & Halske, which later became Siemens, the largest engineering company in Europe.

★27 Mar 1850
San Diego, the first European settlement in what is now California, was incorporated as a city.

★27 Sep 1854
The paddle steamer SS Arctic sank after a collision with SS Vesta 50 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, killing approximately 320 people.

★31 Dec 1857
Queen Victoria selected Ottawa, then a small logging town, to be the capital of the British colony of Canada.

★10 Apr 1858
Big Ben, the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in London, was cast after the original bell had cracked during testing.

★23 Jul 1860
The trial in the Eastbourne manslaughter began, which became an important legal precedent in the United Kingdom for discussions of corporal punishment in schools.

★01 Oct 1861
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, a book on housekeeping and cooking which remains in print today, was first published in London.

★08 Nov 1861
American Civil War: The USS San Jacinto stopped the British mailship Trent and arrested two Confederate envoys en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the United States.

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