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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.
– Évariste Galois released from prison.
– 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.
– The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
– The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
– Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
– 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 ?
– Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
– John Brown Gordon, American politician (d. 1904)
– Charles Boycott, British land agent (d. 1897)
– Jules Ferry, French statesman (d. 1893)
– Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
– José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
– Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
– Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (d. 1919)
– Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
– John H. Ketcham, American politician (d. 1906)