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Historical Event(s)
– U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
– War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
– Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
– Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
– During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
– French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
– The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
– First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
– Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
– The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris, France.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
– Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (d. 1865)
– Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876)
– Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
– Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
– George Mifflin Dallas, American politician (d. 1864)
– Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
– Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
– Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
– King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)