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Historical Event(s)
– Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
– Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
– George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
Who Were Born On ?
– Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808)
– Túpac Amaru II, Incan revolutionary (d. 1781)
– Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
– William Hooper, American signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799)
– Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (d. 1786)
– Ozias Humphrey, English artist (d. 1810)
– Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)
– Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819)
– Charlotte von Stein, German friend of Goethe (d. 1827)