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Historical Event(s)
– Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
– Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
– The Iowa Territory is organized.
– Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
– The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838
– Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
– The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
– Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
– The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
– Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Who Were Born On ?
– Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
– Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)
– Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
– John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
– Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
– Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
– Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
– Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d. 1918)
– Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and diplomat (d. 1928)
– Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)