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Historical Event(s)
– President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
– In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.
– Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
– The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
– The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
– End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
– Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
– U.S.President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
– Egyptian–Ottoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya.
– John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
Who Were Born On ?
– James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
– Félix-Gabriel Marchand, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1900)
– George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)
– Juan Montalvo, Ecuadoran author (d. 1889)
– José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
– Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
– Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
– Stephen Mosher Wood, American Politician (d. 1920)
– Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (d. 1914)
– Henry Clay Work, American composer (d. 1884)