Budan de Boislaurent, mathematician

Birth

Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope

Event

Elie Decazes, France, Bourbon Restoration political figure

Birth

9,000 American forces and 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown

Event

David Walker, Wilmington NC, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens)

Birth

Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)

Event

Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval

Event

Richard Bright, England, physician (Bright's Disease/nephritis)

Birth

Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire

Death

Denis A Affre, archbishop of Paris (1840-48)

Birth

Denis-Auguste Affre, Franc, archbishop/opponent of King Louis-Philippe

Birth

Prosper M‚rim‚e, Paris France, playwright (Carmen)

Birth

Arnold Henry Guyot, Switzerland, US geologist/geographer/meteorologist

Birth

Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician

Birth

Anton Wallerstein, composer

Birth

Joachim Murats fleet sails from Corsica to Naples

Event

Nicolas Desmarest, French geographer (Volcanos), dies at 90

Death

Karl Haack, composer, dies at 68

Death

Jacob G de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist

Birth

Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher

Birth

Alfred Gilpin Jones, Weymouth NS, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06)

Birth

Francis Turner Palgrave, Eng, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford)

Birth

Rafael N£¤ez, Colombia, 3 times president (188?..94)

Birth

Friedrich A Lange, Prussia, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism)

Birth

Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston

Event