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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.
– 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.
– In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
– Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
– 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.
– 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 Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)
– Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
– Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
– Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
– Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856)
– François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
– François Guizot, French statesman (d. 1874)
– Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born shipping magnate (d. 1865)
– Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
– John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)