The temperature on October 9, 1776 was about 12.0 °C. There was 90 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
April 6 » American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
July 12 » Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
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 22 » Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
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.
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