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Birthday July 24, 1776

• The temperature on July 24, 1776 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 27 » American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • June 11 » The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
  • July 8 » Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
  • July 12 » Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
  • August 27 » Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
  • September 7 » According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1757 » Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-Russian painter († 1825)
• 1783 » Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan commander and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela († 1830)
• 1786 » Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer († 1843)
• 1794 » Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish mineralogist and geologist († 1865)
• 1802 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright († 1870)
• 1803 » Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic († 1856)