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Historical Event(s)
– Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
– California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento.
– John C. Fremont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
– King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
– Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
– American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
– Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
– Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
– Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
– The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
Who Were Born On ?
– John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
– Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
– Reinhold Sadler, 9th Governor of Nevada (d. 1906)
– Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
– Jean Aicard, French poet (d. 1921)
– Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner, the last to carry out capital punishment in Sweden (d. 1920)
– Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
– Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
– Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
– Eduard Müller, Swiss politician (d. 1919)