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Birthday December 4, 1776

• The temperature on December 4, 1776 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken 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 1776: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 1 » General George Washington hoists the first United States flag; the Grand Union Flag at Prospect Hill.
  • July 2 » American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.
  • 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).
  • October 28 » American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
  • December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1713 » Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic († 1786)
• 1777 » Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman († 1849)
• 1795 » Thomas Carlyle, Scottish-English historian, philosopher, and academic († 1881)
• 1798 » Jules Armand Dufaure, French lawyer and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France († 1881)
• 1817 » Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georgian poet and author († 1845)
• 1835 » Samuel Butler, English author and critic († 1902)