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Historical Event(s)
– Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
– René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
– U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
– Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
– Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War.
– The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
– The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
– Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
Who Were Born On ?
– Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), Welsh clergyman and author (d. 1870)
– William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)
– Horace Gray, American jurist and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1902)
– Jean Danjou, French Foreign Legion officer (d. 1863)
– Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (d. 1915)
– Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (d. 1904)
– Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (d. 1889)
– Queen Louise of the Netherlands, Dutch consort of Charles XV of Sweden (d. 1871)
– Clarence Cook, American writer and art critic (d. 1900)
– Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)