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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
– John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
– The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
– The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
– Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
– Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
– Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
– The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
Who Were Born On ?
– George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the UK (d. 1860)
– Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
– Peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860)
– Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
– Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
– James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet (d. 1859)
– Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British statesman (d. 1865)
– Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
– Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)