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Historical Event(s)
– Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
– Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
– The University of Alabama is founded.
– James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
– A new London Bridge opens.
– Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
– Nat Turner’s slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
– Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia.
– Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.
– Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
Who Were Born On ?
– Clement Studebaker, American automobile executive (d. 1901)
– Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903)
– John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
– Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
– James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
– John Stith Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
– Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
– John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901)
– Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (d. 1917)
– Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (d. 1888)