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Historical Event(s)
– At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
– Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
– Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
– Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
Who Were Born On ?
– Thomas Otway, British dramatist (d. 1685)
– Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)
– Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
– Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
– Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1722)
– Ferdinand Charles, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (d. 1708)
– Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
– Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713)