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Historical Event(s)
– Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
– American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
– Rama I of Siam (modern day Thailand) founds the Chakri dynasty.
– American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.
– The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
– American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
– First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
– American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful “grand assault” during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
– The Montgolfier brothers’ first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
Who Were Born On ?
– Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
– Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d.1863)
– John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
– Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
– Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, Queen Consort of the French (d. 1866)
– John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
– Levi Lincoln, Jr., 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
– Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
– Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, British statesman (d. 1859)
– Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1867)