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Historical Event(s)
– The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
– 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.
– 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.
– Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
– Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
– Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him).
– An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story).
Who Were Born On ?
– William Tecumseh Sherman, American Union general (d. 1891)
– John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
– Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910)
– Florence Nightingale, British nurse (d. 1910)
– John Bartlett, American publisher (d. 1905)
– George Law Curry, American newspaper publisher and 5th and 7th Governor of the Oregon Territory (d. 1878)
– John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)
– Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bengali scholar (d. 1891)
– Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
– Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (d. 1892)