Today in History for August 1794

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Historical Events

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1st - Whiskey Rebellion begins
8th - Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
16th - Hungarian revolutionary Ignác Martinovics arrested in Vienna
20th - Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio
26th - French troops occupy Lock

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 5 of 5

10th - Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry)
11th - James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
15th - Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum)
17th - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
28th - Johannes Zwijsen, archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 3 of 3

6th - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
11th - Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 72
14th - George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies


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