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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.
– American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
– 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).
– 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.
– 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 Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
– American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
– The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847)
– Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820)
– Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
– 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)
– Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842)
– Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
– James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)