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Historical Event(s)
– The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
– The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
– The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
– Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron.
– Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
– Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
– The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world’s first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
– The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
– At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
– Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
Who Were Born On ?
– George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)
– Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
– Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908)
– Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1844)
– William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886)
– István Türr, Hungarian soldier and engineer (d. 1908)
– Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d. 1904)
– Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
– Charles Griffin, American general (d. 1876)