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Historical Event(s)
– Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
– The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
– Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
– Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
– The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
– The Rhône and Loire (Lêre) départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
– French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
– The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina
– New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
– The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
Who Were Born On ?
– James Madison Porter, American politician, 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College (d. 1862)
– John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
– Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
– Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor (d. 1857)
– Pavel Pestel, Russian revolutionary (d. 1826)
– John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)
– Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836)
– Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)
– Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
– Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet (d. 1866)