On This Day
1792 – Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
The Revolutionary Tribunal (French: Tribunal révolutionnaire; unofficially Popular Tribunal)[1] was a court instituted by the National Convention during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders. It eventually became one of the most powerful engines of the Reign of Terror.[2]
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Born On This Day
1864 – Elsie Inglis, Scottish surgeon and suffragette (d. 1917)[7]
Elsie Maud Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was an innovative Scottish doctor, pioneering surgeon, inspiring teacher,[1] suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals,[2] and the first woman to hold the Serbian Order of the White Eagle.[3]
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