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Historical Event(s)
– University College London is founded under the name University of London.
– The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year’s siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
– HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
– Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
– The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
– French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
– Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
– The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
– The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
Who Were Born On ?
– Julia Dent-Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
– John Buford, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1863)
– Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist and suffragette (d. 1898)
– Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890)
– Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
– Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
– Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)
– Martin Wiberg, Swedish computer pioneer (d. 1905)
– Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d. 1895)