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Historical Event(s)
– Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
– Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
– Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
– Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
– The Iowa Territory is organized.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
– Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
– The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
– The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
– The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)
– Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel laureate (d. 1913)
– Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (d. 1900)
– Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
– Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
– Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian Slavic studies scholar (d. 1923)
– Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
– John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
– Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and diplomat (d. 1928)
– John Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (d. 1915)