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Historical Event(s)
– Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
– French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
– French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
– French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
Who Were Born On ?
– Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
– John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
– Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)
– Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Austrian governor of the Duchy of Milan and Duke of Breisgau (d. 1806)
– Thomas Bowdler, English physician and censor (d. 1825)
– Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836)
– William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
– King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
– Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
– William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)