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Historical Event(s)
– Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
– The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
– Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
– 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.
– U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
– Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
– 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 ?
– Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player (d. 1867)
– Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
– Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician and cabinet member (d. 1852)
– Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)
– Matthew C. Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
– Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1847)
– Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868)
– Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
– James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
– Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)