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Movie history events from 1849
Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, is born. (The Phantom of the Opera)
16th May: The ship Land o'Lakes out of Buffalo, NY, bound for Milwalkee encounters a four-bell force gale, strikes a reef and flounders; all hands are lost, including Capt. Joshua Stuart and sixty immigrants from the Old World. (Lake Michigan, USA) (Thunder Rock)
15th June: James K. Polk dies. (Nashville) (The Monroe Doctrine)