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Historical Event(s)
– The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
– Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state.
– Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
– The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
– Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
– Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
– France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
– The first edition of The Observer, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, is published.
– The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
Who Were Born On ?
– Peter Cooper, American Industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1883)
– Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873)
– James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868)
– Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
– Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
– Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
– Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
– Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
– Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1859)
– Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian soldier and statesman (d. 1848)