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Historical Event(s)
– In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
– American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
– In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
– Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
– First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John), New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
– A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
– American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
– John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
– W.A. Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
– At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
Who Were Born On ?
– Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
– Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
– Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
– Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
– Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)
– Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)
– William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (d. 1850)
– Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military commander (d. 1830)
– Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
– William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)