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Historical Event(s)
– The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
– The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
– A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
– Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
– Argentina declares independence from Spain.
– The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
– HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
– The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
– Warsaw University is established.
– Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
Who Were Born On ?
– Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
– Haller Nutt, Southern Plantation owner (d. 1864)
– Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
– Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855)
– Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
– Georg August Rudolph, German politician (d. 1893)
– John Curwen, British music educator (d. 1880)
– Morrison Waite, American jurist (d. 1888)
– August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890)
– Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)