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Historical Event(s)
– Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
– James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
– War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
– Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
– Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
– American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
– Battle of Grenada: French victory over British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
– American Revolutionary War: light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
– American Revolution: a squadron commanded by John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head, off the coast of England, against two British warships.
– American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847)
– Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820)
– Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
– Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist (d. 1851)
– William Lamb, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848)
– Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, author, and poet (d. 1863)
– Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
– Carl Ritter, German geographer (d. 1859)
– Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (d. 1850)
– Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)