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Historical Event(s)
– First session of United States Senate open to the public.
– The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
– Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
– French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
– Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
– The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
– British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
– The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
– French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 “enemies of the Revolution”.
– Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
Who Were Born On ?
– François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
– Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican president (d. 1876)
– Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)
– Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1847)
– Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868)
– Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
– Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
– Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
– James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
– William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)