Reimagine your birthday celebration! 🎉 Unique songs, fascinating trivia, and fun facts all in one place. Subscribe now and make your birthday unforgettable! 🎂✨ (Sponsored)
Historical Event(s)
– The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
– The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
– The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
– The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
– President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
– Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
– The Belgian Revolution begins.
– The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
– Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
– St. Catherine Laboure experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.
Who Were Born On ?
– Daniel Oliver, British botanist (d. 1916)
– Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889)
– Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, German-born wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (d. 1911)
– William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
– Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916)
– Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (d. 1911)
– Marianne North, English naturalist and flower painter (d. 1890)
– Christina Rossetti, English poet (d. 1894)
– Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)