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Historical Event(s)
– South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
– American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
– 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 Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
– American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
– 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.
– The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
– The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
Who Were Born On ?
– Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
– Zebulon Pike, American explorer (d. 1813)
– Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer and poet (d. 1827)
– Minh Mang, the second emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1841)
– Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854)
– Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840)
– Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German (Prussian) gymnastics educator and nationalist (d. 1852)
– Mariano Moreno, secretary of war of the Primera Junta (d. 1811)
– Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
– Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, daughter of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)