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1843
Robert Todd Lincoln (d.1926), son of Abraham Lincoln, Capt (Union volunteers), was born.
1834
The British Emancipation Act began. This ended slavery in the West Indies and all Caribbean holdings. Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire. Some 35,000 salves were freed in the Cape Colony.
1831
London Bridge opened to traffic.
1825
William Beaumont, a US Army assistant surgeon at Fort Mackinac in the Michigan territory, began experiments to study the digestive system of Alexis St. Martin, a fur trader who was accidentally shot in the abdomen in 1822. 
1819
Herman Melville (d.1891), American novelist, author of Moby Dick, was born. In 1996 part one of a 2-part biography was published by Hershel Parker: Herman Melville: 1819-1851. In 1951 Leon Howard wrote a biography. Melville wrote 5 books between 1845-1850. They included "Typee" and "White-Jacket."
1818
Maria Mitchell (d.1889), the first female astronomer in the U.S., was born. She discovered a comet in 1847 and was the first prof. of astronomy at Vassar College. In 1869 she was the first woman elected to the American Philosophical Society.
1815
Richard Henry Dana (d.1882), US jurist, novelist, lawyer and sailor, was born. He wrote "Two Years Before the Mast."
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