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Historical Event(s)
– The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
– The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
– The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
– British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
– Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution’s new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
– Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
– Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
– French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 “enemies of the Revolution”.
– Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
– Battle of Fallen Timbers – American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
Who Were Born On ?
– François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
– William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
– Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician and cabinet member (d. 1852)
– Matthew C. Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
– Edward Everett, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
– Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868)
– Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
– Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
– Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
– Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)