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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
– Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
– The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
– American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
– The first battle of Shays’ Rebellion begins.
– In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his “Farewell Address to the Army”.
– In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
– American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
– A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
– George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
Who Were Born On ?
– Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
– Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
– Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
– 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)
– Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen consort of Holland (d. 1837)
– William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (d. 1850)
– Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military commander (d. 1830)
– Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)