1793

3-Nov

Stephen Austin (principal founder of Texas)

2-Mar

Sam Houston (Texas politician)

3-Jan

Lucretia Mott (American Quaker, abolitionist and women’s right activist)

8-Nov

The Louvre began admitting the public, even though the French museum had been officially open since August.

16-Oct

Queen Marie Antoinette of France was beheaded.

18-Sep

President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capital building in the District of Columbia, using a silver trowel and marble-headed gavel to put the

25-Feb

The various department heads of the U.S. government met with President George Washington at his home for the first cabinet meeting on record.

12-Feb

The first US fugitive slave law was passed which required the return of escaped slaves.

21-Jan

King Louis XVI of France was executed by the guillotine.

9-Jan

What’s generally regarded as the first successful balloon flight in the United States took place as Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard traveled between Philadelphia and Woodbury,

3-Nov

2-Mar

3-Jan

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Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell

Dianne Russell