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Historical Event(s)
– The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
– American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
– American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
– American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondicherry.
– The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
– The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).
– British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
– Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
– In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
– American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
Who Were Born On ?
– Zebulon Pike, American explorer (d. 1813)
– A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)
– Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)
– Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
– Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German (Prussian) gymnastics educator and nationalist (d. 1852)
– Bernardo O'Higgins, South American revolutionary (d. 1842)
– Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
– Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian naval officer and explorer (d. 1852)
– Mariano Moreno, secretary of war of the Primera Junta (d. 1811)
– Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1837)