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Historical Event(s)
– The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
– The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
– The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
– 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.
– In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
– 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.
– Fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg occurred.
– Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
Who Were Born On ?
– David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
– Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
– Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911)
– Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
– Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867)
– Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
– King Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)
– Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer (d. 1863)
– Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sissi, Empress of Austria (d. 1898)
– Morgan Bulkeley, American politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut and baseball commissioner (d. 1922)