On this day in 1672, Giovanni Cassini discovered Rhea, a satellite of Saturn. Inventor Richard Arkwright, who developed the mechanical loom, was born on this day in 1732. On this day in 1783, two months after the final battle of the Revolutionary War at Yorktown, General George Washington resigned his commission. On this day in 1790, Jean Francois Champollion, French Egyptologist, was born. Mormon church founder Joseph Smith was born on this day in 1805 in Sharon Vermont.
Modern scholarship indicates that it was plagiarized.
On this day in 1852, the Theatre of Celestial John opened on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. It was the first Chinese theatre in the U.S. Harriet Monroe, poet and editor of Poetry magazine, was born on this day in 1860 in Chiacgo. Butler had issued an order that any Southern woman in New Orleans who insulted a Northern soldier was to be treated as a prostitute. After an argument over a woman with Paul Gaugin on this day in 1888, Vincent Van Gogh cut off part of an earlobe. On this day in 1893, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera H nsel und Gretel was first performed, in Weimar, Germany.