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Historical Event(s)
– Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War
– Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
– King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
– Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
– United States troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
– Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
– King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
– France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
– First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
– The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
Who Were Born On ?
– Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (d. 1857)
– James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868)
– Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
– Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
– Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
– Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
– Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
– Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (d. 1869)
– Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian soldier and statesman (d. 1848)
– Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, wife of Napoleon (d. 1847)