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Birthday March 3, 1776

• The temperature on March 3, 1776 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. 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 1 » General George Washington hoists the first United States flag; the Grand Union Flag at Prospect Hill.
  • May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
  • May 15 » American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
  • June 8 » American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
  • 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).
  • December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1756 » William Godwin, English journalist and author († 1836)
• 1778 » Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz († 1841)
• 1793 » William Macready, English actor and manager († 1873)
• 1800 » Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist († 1862)
• 1803 » Thomas Field Gibson, English manufacturer who aided the welfare of the Spitalfields silk weavers († 1889)
• 1805 » Jonas Furrer, Swiss politician († 1861)