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Birthday August 19, 1787

• The temperature on August 19, 1787 was about 16.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: 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 1787: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
  • February 3 » Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
  • May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
  • July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
  • September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
  • October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1743 » Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France († 1793)
• 1777 » Francis I, king of the Two Sicilies († 1830)
• 1815 » Harriette Newell Woods Baker, American editor and children's book writer († 1893)
• 1819 » Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Luxembourger-Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 1894)
• 1830 » Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist († 1895)
• 1835 » Tom Wills, Australian cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football († 1880)