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Birthday August 9, 1776

• The temperature on August 9, 1776 was about 18.0 °C. There was 29 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: regen 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 1 » General George Washington hoists the first United States flag; the Grand Union Flag at Prospect Hill.
  • March 17 » American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
  • April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
  • June 7 » Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
  • 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).
  • September 11 » British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.

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• 1757 » Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, American humanitarian; wife of Alexander Hamilton († 1854)
• 1757 » Thomas Telford, Scottish architect and engineer, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge († 1834)
• 1776 » Amedeo Avogadro, Italian physicist and chemist († 1856)
• 1783 » Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia († 1801)
• 1788 » Adoniram Judson, American missionary and lexicographer († 1850)
• 1797 » Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and surveyor († 1855)