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Movie history events from 1849
Adam Ewing goes to the South Pacific. (South Pacific Ocean) (Cloud Atlas)
Drew Scott is born. (High Plains Drifter)
Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, is born. (The Phantom of the Opera)
Grandpa Sawyer is born. (Texas) (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
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)
6th August: Harriet, future wife of James Dupp, is born. (Darkman II: The Return of Durant)
7th October: Edgar Allan Poe dies from poisoning himself to save the life of Emily Hamilton. (Baltimore, MD) (The Raven)