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Birthday September 3, 1777

• The temperature on September 3, 1777 was about 12.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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 1777: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 15 » American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence.
  • March 8 » Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
  • September 3 » American Revolutionary War: During the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.
  • September 19 » American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
  • October 22 » American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
  • December 18 » The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1781 » Eugène de Beauharnais, French general and politician († 1824)
• 1803 » Prudence Crandall, American educator († 1890)
• 1810 » Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter († 1871)
• 1811 » John Humphrey Noyes, American activist, founded the Oneida Community († 1886)
• 1814 » James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic († 1897)
• 1820 » George Hearst, American businessman and politician († 1891)