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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.
– Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
– The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
– 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.
– Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
– The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
– New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
– The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country’s temporary capital.
Who Were Born On ?
– George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron), English poet (d. 1824)
– Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
– Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (d. 1869)
– Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
– Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862)
– Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867)
– Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary (d. 1850)
– Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
– Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (d. 1879)