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Historical Event(s)
– The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
– The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
– Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron.
– Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
– Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
– The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world’s first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
– The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
– At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
– Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
– The Treaty of St. Louis (1825) between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
Who Were Born On ?
– Bayard Taylor, American poet (d. 1878)
– George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)
– Henry Walter Bates, English naturalist and explorer (d. 1892)
– Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893)
– Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (d. 1879)
– Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
– John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate cavalry general (d. 1864)
– William Pitt Ballinger, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1888)
– John S. Harris, American politician (d. 1906)
– Samuel Newitt Wood, American Politician (d. 1891)