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Historical Event(s)
– In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
– In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
– Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
– The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
– A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
– American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
– A huge fireball meteor is seen across the United Kingdom as it passes over the east coast.
– The first battle of Shays’ Rebellion begins.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
– Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
– Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
– 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)
– Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician and Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
– Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
– William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
– Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)