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Historical Event(s)
– Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
– Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
– Samuel Francis Smith wrote My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities.
– Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
– Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
– William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
– The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
– In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
– Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia.
– Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.
Who Were Born On ?
– Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer (d. 1897)
– Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
– Jack Slade, American frontier figure (d. 1864)
– Hiram Bond Everest, American co-founder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913)
– Clement Studebaker, American automobile executive (d. 1901)
– Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)
– Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
– James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
– Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
– Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist (d. 1910)