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Historical Event(s)
– The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
– First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
– The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
– World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer’s supervision.
– Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
– Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
– Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
– First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
– United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
– Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
Who Were Born On ?
– Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
– Samuel Plimsoll, British politician and social reformer
– Winfield Scott Hancock, American Civil War general (d. 1886)
– Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
– Cadmus M. Wilcox, American Confederate general (d. 1890)
– Ambrose Burnside, American Union Civil War general (d. 1881)
– Paul Broca, French physician (d. 1880)
– Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1880)
– Francis Turner Palgrave, British critic and poet (d. 1897)
– Henry Chadwick, English-born American baseball writer and statistician (d. 1908)