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Historical Event(s)
– An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
– Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras were captured during the Action of Picheuta.
– An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
– The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
– Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
– Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
– The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
– At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
– The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
– Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
Who Were Born On ?
– Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
– Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
– Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
– Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)
– Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Founder of the Religious of the Assumption (d. 1898)
– Queen Louise of Hesse-Kassel of Denmark (d. 1898)
– Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
– Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual figure (d. 1892)
– John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911)
– Theodor Mommsen, German historian, Nobel laureate (d. 1903)