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Historical Event(s)
– Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
– U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
– Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.
– John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
– War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
– The Treaties of Orebro end both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
– 24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
– Work on London’s Regent’s Canal starts.
– War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
– War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a friendly Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
Who Were Born On ?
– Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
– Alexander Hamilton Stephens, American politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America and 50th Governor of Georgia (d. 1883)
– Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (d. 1846)
– Henry Wilson, American politician 18th Vice President of the United States (d. 1875)
– Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author (d. 1882)
– Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1880)
– Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
– Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
– Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
– Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d. 1891)