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Historical Event(s)
– The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
– The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
– Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
– The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
– The General Assembly’s Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
– The Belgian Revolution begins.
– The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in US railroading.
– The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
– Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
– November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia’s rule in Poland begins.
Who Were Born On ?
– Albert Bierstadt, German/American painter (d. 1902)
– Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)
– Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, Prussian musician (d. 1913)
– Eadweard Muybridge, English-born photographer and motion picture pioneer (d. 1904)
– Guido Gezelle, Flemish poet and priest (d. 1899)
– Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, German-born wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (d. 1911)
– Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
– William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
– Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916)