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Historical Event(s)
– A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
– Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
– The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
– The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
– Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
– The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
– Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
– Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
– Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
– Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him).
Who Were Born On ?
– Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
– Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal (d. 1898)
– Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897)
– Alexander Joy Cartwright, Inventor of the Modern Game of Baseball (d. 1892)
– Julia Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
– George Law Curry, American newspaper publisher and 5th and 7th Governor of the Oregon Territory (d. 1878)
– William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist (d. 1872)
– John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)
– Sir George Grove, English music historian (d. 1900)
– Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (d. 1892)