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Historical Event(s)
– The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
– Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
– Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
– In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
– James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
– Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
– Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
– Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
– In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
– William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
Who Were Born On ?
– August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
– Manuel Rodríguez, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile (d. 1818)
– Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
– Josiah Henson, American minister and abolitionist (d. 1883)
– Horace Vernet, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1863)
– Maria Isabella of Spain, Queen consort of the Two Sicilies, wife of Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1846)
– Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833)
– Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
– William Burton, American politician (d. 1866)
– Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest and revolutionary (d. 1853)