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Historical Event(s)
– A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
– Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
– The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
– Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
– The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
– Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
– The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
– Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
– Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
Who Were Born On ?
– George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
– John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
– Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910)
– Alexander Joy Cartwright, Inventor of the Modern Game of Baseball (d. 1892)
– Lorenzo Sawyer, American jurist (d. 1891)
– Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
– Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bengali scholar (d. 1891)
– Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
– Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (d. 1892)
– Mary Livermore, American journalist and women’s rights advocate (d. 1905)