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Historical Event(s)
– A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
– Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
– The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
– The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
– Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
– Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
– Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
– Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
– An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story).
Who Were Born On ?
– Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1903)
– Julia Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
– James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (d. 1887)
– Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician (d. 1892)
– George Hearst, American businessman, father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891)
– Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
– John F. Reynolds, American Civil War general (d. 1863)
– David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
– Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
– Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)