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Birthday November 26, 1775

• The temperature on November 26, 1775 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 26 » The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
  • March 23 » American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
  • April 19 » American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
  • June 11 » The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
  • October 13 » The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).
  • October 18 » African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1727 » Artemas Ward, American general and politician († 1800)
• 1731 » William Cowper, English poet and hymnwriter († 1800)
• 1792 » Sarah Moore Grimké, American author and activist († 1873)
• 1817 » Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Alsatian-French chemist († 1884)
• 1827 » Ellen G. White, American religious leader and author, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church († 1915)
• 1828 » Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic († 1895)