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Historical Event(s)
– William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
– American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor’s prisons.
– Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the “First Fleet”) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
– In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
– Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
– The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
– Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
– Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
– Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution five days after Delaware became the first.
– New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Who Were Born On ?
– John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
– Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa, Spanish statesman and dramatist (d. 1862)
– Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
– John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)
– James Weddell, English explorer of Antarctica (d. 1834)
– François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
– Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born shipping magnate (d. 1865)
– Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
– Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)