Clarke Family Tree » James PHILLIPS-MCDONALD (1789-????)

Birthday September 5, 1789

• The temperature on September 5, 1789 was about 18.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1789: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
  • July 12 » In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
  • July 27 » The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
  • October 3 » George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.
  • October 5 » French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
  • October 6 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1774 » Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and etcher († 1840)
• 1775 » Juan Martín Díez, Spanish general († 1825)
• 1781 » Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher († 1858)
• 1787 » François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist († 1850)
• 1791 » Giacomo Meyerbeer, German pianist and composer († 1864)
• 1792 » Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist († 1857)