Today in History for July 1794

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Historical Events

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2nd - 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
13th - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
17th - African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
17th - Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
27th - Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris
31st - All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 5 of 5

3rd - Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt)
5th - Sylvester Graham, developed graham cracker
12th - Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist
14th - John G Lockhart, [Scorpion], biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott)
24th - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 9 of 9

2nd - Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65
7th - Pascal Boyer, composer, dies at 51
17th - Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45
17th - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
22nd - Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer, dies at 59
25th - Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies
28th - Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39
28th - Maximilien Robespierre, Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined
28th - Robespierre, & 22 other terrorists executed to thunderous cheers


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