Are you and your special someone cosmic soulmates? 💫💖 Find out with our free ‘Birthday Compatibility’ report. Based on your birthdays, you can gain insights into your relationship. 🔮✨ Unlock the mystery of your romantic love life today. (Sponsored by MyBirthday.Ninja)
Historical Event(s)
– The hymn that became known as “Amazing Grace”, then titled “1 Chronicles 17:16–17” is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, England.
– The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
– Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
– The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
– Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
– America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia
– The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
– The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
– American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
Who Were Born On ?
– Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
– Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigator (d. 1838)
– James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1836)
– Étienne Aignan, French writer (d. 1824)
– John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
– Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)
– Sir Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer, soldier and governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)
– Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
– Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
– King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)