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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 Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
– American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
– American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
– American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant – British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
– American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
– 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).
– The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
– American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
– American Revolutionary War: 3,000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
Who Were Born On ?
– Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
– Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)
– Don José de San Martín, Argentine military commander (d. 1850)
– Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840)
– Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German (Prussian) gymnastics educator and nationalist (d. 1852)
– Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
– Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
– Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
– Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
– Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, daughter of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)