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Birthday September 27, 1789

• The temperature on September 27, 1789 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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
  • April 30 » On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
  • June 8 » James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
  • July 9 » In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
  • 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 14 » Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
  • November 20 » New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

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• 1765 » Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French general († 1794)
• 1772 » Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson who had twelve children († 1836)
• 1783 » Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican royalist turned insurgent; first emperor of Mexico († 1824)
• 1803 » Samuel Francis Du Pont, American admiral († 1865)
• 1805 » George Müller, German-English evangelist and missionary, founded the Ashley Down Orphanage († 1898)
• 1818 » Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic († 1884)