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Historical Event(s)
– An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80,000 people and causing major damage.
– American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
– The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
– The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
– New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
– James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
– American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
– American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold’s change of sides.
– Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point.
– John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
Who Were Born On ?
– Martin Lichtenstein, German physician (d. 1857)
– Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist (d. 1847)
– William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian (d. 1842)
– Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)
– Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
– François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
– Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
– Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
– John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
– Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)