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Historical Event(s)
– The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
– A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
– Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
– Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
– Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
– Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
– The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
– The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
– Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
– French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
Who Were Born On ?
– John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
– Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
– Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (d. 1856)
– François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853)
– Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859)
– Charles Edward Horn, British musician (d. 1849)
– Justinus Kerner, German poet (d. 1862)
– Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
– Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
– Syed Ahmad Shaheed, Indian Muslim revolutionist