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Historical Event(s)
– Sylhet District in north-east Bangladesh is established
– American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
– Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
– Rama I of Siam (modern day Thailand) founds the Chakri dynasty.
– John Adams secures the Dutch Republic’s recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
– The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
– First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
– George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
– American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
– The Montgolfier brothers’ first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
Who Were Born On ?
– Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
– Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
– Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d.1863)
– Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
– Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, Queen Consort of the French (d. 1866)
– John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
– Levi Lincoln, Jr., 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
– Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
– Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer, professor of Greek language, and bishop (d. 1846)
– Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1867)