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Historical Event(s)
– Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
– War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
– South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”).
– War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
– Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
– At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
– War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).
– Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
– Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
– British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812.
Who Were Born On ?
– Isaac Pitman, English inventor (d. 1897)
– Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906)
– Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895)
– James Marion Sims, American physician (d. 1883)
– Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (d. 1864)
– James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
– Montgomery Blair, American politician (d. 1883)
– Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
– Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)
– Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)