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Historical Event(s)
– Sylhet District in north-east Bangladesh is established
– The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
– Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
– American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
– Rama I of Siam (modern day Thailand) founds the Chakri dynasty.
– John Adams secures the Dutch Republic’s recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
– American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
– First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
– George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
Who Were Born On ?
– Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
– Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
– Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d.1863)
– Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
– Juan Larrea, Argentine businessman, member of the Primera Junta (d. 1847)
– Maria Luisa of Spain, Duchess of Lucca and Queen of Etruria (d. 1824)
– John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
– Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
– Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer, professor of Greek language, and bishop (d. 1846)
– Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)