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Birthday November 22, 1776

• The temperature on November 22, 1776 was about 8.0 °C. There was 92 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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.
  • February 27 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • October 28 » American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
  • December 25 » George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.

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)