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Historical Event(s)
– Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
– Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
– Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
– Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
– Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
– A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
– The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
– Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”.
– Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay “To the People of Upper Canada”, published in his newspaper The Constitution.
– Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
Who Were Born On ?
– Adolf Jensen, German pianist, composer (d. 1879)
– Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (d. 1903)
– Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
– George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
– Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (d. 1894)
– Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
– King Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)
– James T. Rapier, American politician (d. 1883)
– John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor (d. 1920)