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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
– Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
– Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
– The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
– The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
– Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
– Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution five days after Delaware became the first.
Who Were Born On ?
– Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)
– William Etty, English painter (d. 1849)
– Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
– John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)
– Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
– James Weddell, English explorer of Antarctica (d. 1834)
– François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
– Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
– Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)