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Historical Event(s)
– Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
– Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
– Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
– The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
– British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
– The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
– The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
– Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
– Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter’s Field, Manchester, England.
– Simón Bolívar declares the independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900)
– James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
– Henry J. Gardner, American politician (d. 1892)
– Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer (d. 1880)
– Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900)
– Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
– Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first President of the South African Republic (d. 1901)
– Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine, which was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion (d. 1885).
– Báb, Persian founder of Bábism and a central figure in the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1850)
– Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892)