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Birthday November 22, 1775

• The temperature on November 22, 1775 was about 1.0 °C. Weather type: omtrent helder 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
  • May 10 » American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
  • September 8 » The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.
  • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
  • November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
  • December 9 » American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1744 » Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States († 1818)
• 1780 » Conradin Kreutzer, German composer († 1849)
• 1780 » José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico († 1834)
• 1787 » Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar († 1823)
• 1808 » Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group († 1892)
• 1814 » Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California († 1893)