Holy Toledo! Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Let’s give it a quick spin. Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters CIRUATAITRT? Check your answers here: Word scramble CIRUATAITRT. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
Historical Event(s)
– The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
– The first United States census is authorized.
– France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
– The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
– Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund – in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
– French Revolution: citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
– The very first U.S. patent is issued: to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
– A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
– Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
– Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
– Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861)
– John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
– Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
– William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)
– Thursday October Christian (d. 1831)
– Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (d. 1869)
– Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
– King Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)
– Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)