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Historical Event(s)
– Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
– John C. Fremont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
– First performance of Finland’s national anthem.
– Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
– End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
– 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.
– Waterloo railway station in London opens.
– Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
– California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
– Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
Who Were Born On ?
– John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
– Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary figure (d. 1876)
– Matthew Webb, English swimmer/diver (d. 1883)
– Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)
– Raja Ravi Varma,Indian painter (d.1906)
– Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician (d. 1919)
– Robert I, Duke of Parma, Italian nobleman (d. 1907)
– Thomas Herbst German painter (d. 1915)
– Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
– Eduard Müller, Swiss politician (d. 1919)