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Historical Event(s)
– The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
– Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
– A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
– Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
– Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
– Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
– Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
– Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
– The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
– Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
Who Were Born On ?
– Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
– Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1859)
– Martin W. Bates. U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)
– François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853)
– Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859)
– Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)
– Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
– Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
– Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
– Syed Ahmad Shaheed, Indian Muslim revolutionist