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Historical Event(s)
– Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution
– The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
– The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
– The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.
– The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
– American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
– The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
– South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.
– Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
– New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
Who Were Born On ?
– Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
– William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
– Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
– Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
– Wilhelmine Reichard, first German women balloonist (d. 1848)
– Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d. 1827)
– Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867)
– Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
– Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)