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Birthday December 25, 1790

• The temperature on December 25, 1790 was about 4.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. 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 1790: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 8 » George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
  • March 4 » France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
  • May 29 » Rhode Island becomes the last of North America's original Thirteen Colonies to ratify the Constitution and become one of the United States.
  • July 31 » The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
  • August 4 » A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
  • November 1 » Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1757 » Benjamin Pierce, American general and politician, 17th Governor of New Hampshire († 1839)
• 1766 » Christmas Evans, Welsh Nonconformist preacher († 1838)
• 1771 » Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and poet († 1855)
• 1776 » Sydney, Lady Morgan, Irish author and poet († 1859)
• 1810 » L. L. Langstroth, American apiarist, clergyman and teacher († 1895)
• 1821 » Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founder of the American Red Cross († 1912)