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Historical Event(s)
– The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world’s first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
– Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
– 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 Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
– 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.
– American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
Who Were Born On ?
– Julia Dent-Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
– Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher (d. 1887)
– Léon Minkus, German/Czech composer and violinist (d. 1917)
– Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist and suffragette (d. 1898)
– Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
– Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872)
– Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
– Martin Wiberg, Swedish computer pioneer (d. 1905)
– George B. McClellan, American Civil War general (d. 1885)