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Historical Event(s)
– Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
– Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
– 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.
– The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
– A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
– Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
– Sir James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (d. 1915)
– J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)
– Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
– Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
– Paul Morphy, American chess master (d. 1884)
– Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, German-born Queen consort of Portugal, wife of King Peter V of Portugal (d. 1859)
– King Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)
– Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shogun (d. 1913)
– John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor (d. 1920)