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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.
– 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 ?
– Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
– Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
– Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
– Paul Lacome, French composer (d. 1920)
– Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (d. 1900)
– Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian Slavic studies scholar (d. 1923)
– Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (d. 1910)
– Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
– John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
– Sir Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria (d. 1909)