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Historical Event(s)
– William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
– American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor’s prisons.
– Shays’ Rebellion is crushed.
– Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the “First Fleet”) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
– Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
– The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
– The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
– Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
– Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
– Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
Who Were Born On ?
– John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
– Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa, Spanish statesman and dramatist (d. 1862)
– Edmund Kean, English actor (d. 1833)
– Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
– François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
– Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
– Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born shipping magnate (d. 1865)
– John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
– Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816)
– Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)