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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 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.
– Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
– 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”.
– 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.
– 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.
– Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
Who Were Born On ?
– Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company (d. 1899)
– Sir James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (d. 1915)
– Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908)
– Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867)
– J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)
– Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
– Paul Morphy, American chess master (d. 1884)
– Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, Indian scholar (d. 1925)
– William Quantrill, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (d. 1865)
– Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)