Weatherday: Giving the US a start

Sunset at Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Australia (2012).

A generally dry start with some bright spells. Light patchy rain in the afternoon.

Temperature up to 10deg in moderate southerly breezes, easing to light later.

On this day in 1776 the tiny island municipality of Saint Eustatius in the Caribbean became the first foreign government to recognise the fledgling United States.

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