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Historical Event(s)
– The London Corresponding Society is founded.
– The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
– King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he died on March 29.
– 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.
– The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
– The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
– 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.
– The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store them.
– The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
Who Were Born On ?
– Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
– Blessed Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
– John Linnell, English landscape painter (d. 1882)
– Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
– George Mifflin Dallas, American politician (d. 1864)
– William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand (d. 1842)
– Johann Georg Hiedler, Grandfather of Adolf Hitler (d. 1857)
– Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844)
– Mary Anne Evans, Welsh wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
– Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)