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Historical Event(s)
– Queen Anne’s War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
– The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
– War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
– War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Austrian forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
– Battle of Chamkaur.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772)
– Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
– Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
– John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)
– John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
– Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
– Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
– Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
– John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
– Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist (d. 1779)