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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 Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth is fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
– American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant – British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
– American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondicherry.
– The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
– British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
– Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
Who Were Born On ?
– A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)
– Fernando Sor (baptized), Spanish composer (d. 1839)
– Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)
– Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840)
– Bernardo O'Higgins, South American revolutionary (d. 1842)
– Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
– Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (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)
– Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish politician (d. 1860)