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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.
– American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
– 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.
– The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
– The American Continental Army is disbanded.
– In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
– American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
– A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
Who Were Born On ?
– Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
– Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
– Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
– Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
– Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen consort of Holland (d. 1837)
– Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician and Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
– Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military commander (d. 1830)
– Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
– William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
– Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)