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Historical Event(s)
– Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
– 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.
– British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
– Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
– The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
– Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
– U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
– Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
– Battle of Fallen Timbers – American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
– The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay’s Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
– Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
– Matthew C. Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
– Edward Everett, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
– Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
– Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
– Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
– Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
– James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
– William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)