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Historical Event(s)
– HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
– The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.
– In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
– James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
– The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
– Melbourne, Australia is founded.
– Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Farroupilha Revolution.
– The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
– The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
– Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
Who Were Born On ?
– King William Charles Lunalilo of Hawaiʻi (d. 1874)
– Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
– John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
– Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
– Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator from Georgia, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate (d. 1930)
– Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
– Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912)
– Sai Baba of Shirdi (d. 1918)
– Adlai Stevenson I, American politician, and 23rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
– Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)