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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.
– A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
– Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
– A huge fireball meteor is seen across the United Kingdom as it passes over the east coast.
– American Revolutionary War: the war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
– The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
– John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
– In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
– George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
Who Were Born On ?
– 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)
– Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician and Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
– Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
– William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
– Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
– Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)