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The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War and overall state of conflict between the two countries. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and the United States of America, on lines “exceedingly generous” to the latter. Details included fishing rights and restoration of property and prisoners of war.
This treaty and the separate peace treaties between Great Britain and the nations that supported the American cause—France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic—are known collectively as the Peace of Paris. Only Article 1 of the treaty, which acknowledges the United States’ existence as free, sovereign, and independent states, remains in force.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
When did we begin using meteorological maps?
Edmond Halley, an English astronomer, drew the first such map in 1686.
Advice of the Day
For a headache, soak your feet in hot water to drain the blood from your head.
Home Hint of the Day
Get grimy white cotton socks white again by boiling them in water with a slice of lemon.
Word of the Day
Cirrocumulus cloud
Thin cloud that appears as small “cotton patches.”
Puzzle of the Day
The Tarheel State.(Name the U.S. state!)
North Carolina
Died
- Oliver Cromwell (military leader) – 1658
- John McLoughlin (Father of Oregon”“) – 1857
- e. e. cummings (poet) – 1962
- Frank Capra (director) – 1991
- W. Clement Stone (parlayed $100 into a $2 billion insurance empire) – 2002
- William H. Rehnquist (Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) – 2005
- Michael Clarke Duncan (actor) – 2012
Born
- Sarah Orne Jewett (author) – 1849
- Ferdinand Porsche (auto manufacturer) – 1875
- Alan Ladd (actor) – 1913
- Robert Truax (Rocket Scientist) – 1917
- Mort Walker (cartoonist) – 1923
- Eileen Brennan (actress) – 1935
- Charlie Sheen (actor) – 1965
- Dominic West (actor) – 1969
- Shaun White (snowboarder and skateboarder) – 1986
Events
- Treaty of Paris signed between the U.S. and Great Britain– 1783
- New York Sun became the first daily penny press” newspaper”– 1833
- Abolitionist Frederick Douglass escaped slavery– 1838
- First classes at U.S. Naval War College began– 1885
- First professional football game played– 1895
- World record set by auto averaging 301.13 mph for 1 mile, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah– 1935
- Search for Tomorrow first aired on television– 1951
- Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars at Utopia Planitia– 1976
- 19-inning baseball game began at Fenway Park in Boston– 1981
- 47-lb. flathead catfish caught, Ohio River, Pennsylvania– 2006
Weather
- According to the Royalists, the severe storm that struck the British Isles on this day in 1658 – also the day Oliver Cromwell died – was simple proof that the Devil had come for his soul.– 1658
- A hurricane caused a 13-foot storm surge in New York City– 1821
- Denver, Colorado, got 4.2 inches of snow– 1961
- A hailstone measuring 17.5 inches in circumference and weighing 1.671 pounds was picked up and photographed in Coffeyville, Kansas– 1970
- 89 degrees F, Stampede Pass, Washington– 1988
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