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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.
– End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
– Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
– 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.
– John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
Who Were Born On ?
– Félix-Gabriel Marchand, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1900)
– Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899)
– Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
– Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
– Lucy Pickens, American and Confederate socialite (d. 1899)
– Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
– Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat (d. 1915)
– Andrew Dickson White, American educator (d. 1918)
– Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author and Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
– John H. Ketcham, American politician (d. 1906)