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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 Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
– American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
– American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
– American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford’s continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed.
– American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden – The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
– American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
– John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
Who Were Born On ?
– Martin Lichtenstein, German physician (d. 1857)
– Henry Baldwin, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1844)
– Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist (d. 1847)
– Milos Obrenovic, Serbian noble and nationalist (d. 1860)
– William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian (d. 1842)
– Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
– Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer (d. 1845)
– François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
– John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
– Pauline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1825)