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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.
– The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
– The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
– Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
– Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
– Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
– 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.
– Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
– David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
– Sir James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (d. 1915)
– Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911)
– Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908)
– Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
– Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1922)
– George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
– Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
– Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (d. 1924)