The Forgotten Ones » David Marsh (1776-????)

Birthday June 9, 1776

• The temperature on June 9, 1776 was about 14.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. 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.
  • March 2 » American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
  • 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.
  • June 7 » Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
  • August 31 » William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
  • 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).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1732 » Giuseppe Demachi, Italian violinist and composer († 1791)
• 1754 » Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, English general and politician, Governor of Barbados († 1815)
• 1768 » Samuel Slater, English-American engineer and businessman († 1835)
• 1781 » George Stephenson, English engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway († 1848)
• 1810 » Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor († 1849)
• 1812 » Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic († 1910)