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Historical Event(s)
– Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
– The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
– The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.
– The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day
– American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
– Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
– The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
– Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
– Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
– The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country’s temporary capital.
Who Were Born On ?
– Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
– William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
– George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron), English poet (d. 1824)
– Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
– Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
– Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862)
– David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
– Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
– Mihály Bertalanits Slovene poet and teacher in Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1853)