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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
– Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
– Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
– The Iowa Territory is organized.
– Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
– The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838
– Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
– The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
Who Were Born On ?
– Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
– Paul Lacome, French composer (d. 1920)
– Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
– George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
– Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (d. 1910)
– Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
– Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927)
– King Louis of Portugal (d. 1889)
– Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
– John Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (d. 1915)