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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
– 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.
– Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
Who Were Born On ?
– Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
– Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
– Wilhelmine Reichard, first German women balloonist (d. 1848)
– David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
– Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
– Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867)
– Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
– Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
– Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
– Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)