Ever wondered about the history of birthdays? 🎉 Find fun facts, fresh songs, and everything birthday-related on our channel. Click and subscribe to join the celebration! 🎂✨ (Sponsored)
Historical Event(s)
– Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
– Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
– Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
– Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
– Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
– Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
– The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
– The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation.
– Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Henry Perkin, English chemist (d. 1907)
– Léon Gambetta, French statesman (d. 1882)
– Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)
– Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
– Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American Confederate general and 19th Governor of Texas (d. 1898)
– Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
– Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
– Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d. 1918)
– August Senoa, Croatian writer (d. 1881)
– Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926)