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Historical Event(s)
– Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn Dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.
– Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
– Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
– The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London.
– Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
– Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindia’s army under General Louis Bourquin.
– Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
– The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
– In New Orleans, Louisiana, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
– The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
Who Were Born On ?
– Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright (d. 1857)
– Egerton Ryerson, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1882)
– James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)
– Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879)
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
– George James Webb, English-born composer (d. 1887)
– Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
– Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869)
– Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
– Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)