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What Happened in August 1787

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Aug 2 Swiss alpine explorer Horace Bénédict de Saussure becomes the third person to reach the top of Mont Blanc
Aug 6 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begins debate on the first draft of the Constitution

Music History

Aug 10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his chamber piece "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (A Little Serenade)

Classical Musician and Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Aug 16 Turkey declares war on Russia (Russo-Turkish War 1787-92)
Aug 17 Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
Aug 22 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
Aug 24 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his violin and piano sonata in A, K526

Famous Birthdays

Aug 15 Alexander Aliabiev, Russian composer remembered as one of the fathers of Russian art song, born in Tobolsk, Siberia (d. 1851)
Aug 24 James Weddell, British sailor and Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea), born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1834)

Famous Deaths

Aug 1 Alfonsus Liguori, Italian bishop, theologian, poet, composer, lawyer, and Catholic saint, dies at 90
Aug 13 Isaac de Pinto, Dutch merchant (Dutch East India Company), and scholar, dies at 70

What Happened in 1787

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