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Historical Event(s)
– King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.
– The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
– Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
– The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
– New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who Were Born On ?
– Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
– Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1759)
– Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764)
– Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
– Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1716)