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Historical Event(s)
– President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
– Évariste Galois released from prison.
– The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
– The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
– The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
– The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
– U.S.President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
– The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
– Egyptian–Ottoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya.
Who Were Born On ?
– James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
– Henry Martyn Baird, American educationalist (d. 1906)
– Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
– Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
– Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
– Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
– Lucy Pickens, American and Confederate socialite (d. 1899)
– Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
– Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
– Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (d. 1888)