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Historical Event(s)
– Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
– Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
– Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
– Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
– Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
– The Iowa Territory is organized.
– 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 Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
– 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 ?
– Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
– Margaret E. Knight, American inventor, (d. 1914)
– Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
– Léon Gambetta, French statesman (d. 1882)
– George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
– Anton Mauve, Dutch artist (d. 1888)
– Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927)
– Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
– August Senoa, Croatian writer (d. 1881)
– Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926)