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Historical Event(s)
– Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
– In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
Who Were Born On ?
– François-Joseph Gossec, Belgian composer (d. 1829)
– William Stacy, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1802)
– Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
– Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782)
– Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist (d. 1815)
– Naungdawgyi, King of Burma (d. 1763)
– Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria, consort of Baden-Baden (d. 1776)
– Daniel Boone, American pioneer and hunter (d. 1820)
– Daniel Boone American explorer (d. 1820)
– Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816)