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Historical Event(s)
– During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
– Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for “about 360 meters”, at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted .
– Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
– French counter-revolution: the port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
– French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
– French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
– A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.
– Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
– New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
– Second Battle of Wissembourg: French defeat Austrians.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lucretia Mott, American women’s rights activist (d. 1880)
– John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
– William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
– Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
– Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
– Pavel Pestel, Russian revolutionary (d. 1826)
– John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)
– Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861)
– Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836)
– Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)