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Birthday July 5, 1777

• The temperature on July 5, 1777 was about 16.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 2 » American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
  • March 8 » Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
  • June 13 » American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
  • October 7 » American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
  • December 16 » Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. [1]
  • December 18 » The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1755 » Sarah Siddons, English actress († 1831)
• 1780 » François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician († 1838)
• 1793 » Pavel Pestel, Russian officer († 1826)
• 1794 » Sylvester Graham, American minister and activist († 1851)
• 1801 » David Farragut, American admiral († 1870)
• 1802 » Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral († 1855)