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Historical Event(s)
– The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
– Opening night of the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
– 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.
– Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
– 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)
– François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853)
– Charles Edward Horn, British musician (d. 1849)
– Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
– Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
– Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (d. 1848)
– Syed Ahmad Shaheed, Indian Muslim revolutionist
– Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)