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Historical Event(s)
– The London Corresponding Society is founded.
– Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil’s independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
– Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
– Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
– Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
– King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
– Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
– First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
– In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
Who Were Born On ?
– Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (d. 1866)
– Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
– John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Governor General of British North America (d. 1840)
– Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)
– Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
– Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
– John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
– Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844)
– Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)
– Sylvester Jordan, German politician and lawyer (d. 1861)