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Historical Event(s)
– University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
– The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
– A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
– The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
– One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
– The Glaciarium, the world’s first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
– Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
– The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
– The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
– The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
Who Were Born On ?
– Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
– Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
– Charles-Marie Widor, French composer (d. 1937)
– Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908)
– Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
– John J. Toffey, American army officer (d. 1911)
– Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)
– Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
– Louis Riel, Canadian Metis Political Leader (d. 1885)
– Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)