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Historical Event(s)
– The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
– The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
– French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
– 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.
– Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
– The Battle of the Vosges is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria.
– The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
– U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
– The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay’s Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
– Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican president (d. 1876)
– Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
– Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician and cabinet member (d. 1852)
– Edward Everett, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
– Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso (d. 1870)
– Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (d. 1851)
– Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
– Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
– William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)