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Historical Event(s)
– Shays’ Rebellion is crushed.
– Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the “First Fleet”) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
– Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
– 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.
– Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
– 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 ?
– Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)
– Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
– Edmund Kean, English actor (d. 1833)
– Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
– Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
– François Guizot, French statesman (d. 1874)
– Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
– John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
– Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
– Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)