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Historical Event(s)
– An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
– The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
– Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
– An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
– The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
– Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
– Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
– The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
– The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
– Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
Who Were Born On ?
– Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)
– János Arany, Hungarian journalist (d. 1882)
– Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman and the 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
– Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
– Louise von François, German writer (d. 1893)
– Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)
– Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
– Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
– John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911)
– Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (d. 1896)